A look back in photos: Int’l personalities who died in 2014

JANUARY

Jan. 1

— Juanita Moore, 99, a groundbreaking actress and Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner’s black friend in the classic 1959 film “Imitation of Life,” in Los Angeles.

Jan. 2

— Elizabeth Jane Howard, 90, whose saga of a wealthy family living in the shadow of war enchanted readers a generation ahead of “Downton Abbey,” in Bungay, England.

Jan. 3

— Phil Everly, younger of the Everly Brothers, whose dark songs hidden behind deceptively pleasing harmonies were interpreters of the hearts of millions of American teens coming of age in the 1950s and 1960s, in Los Angeles, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

— George Goodman, 83, a journalist, business author and award-winning television host who under the pseudonym “Adam Smith” made economics accessible to millions of Americans, in Miami. He had the bone marrow disorder myelofibrosis.

— Saul Zaentz, 92, a music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” ”Amadeus” and “The English Patient,” in San Francisco. He had Alzheimer’s disease.

Jan. 5

— Carmen Zapata, 86, an actress who appeared in dozens of movies and television series and who started a foundation to promote Hispanic writers because jobs were so scarce, in California, of heart problems.

— Eusebio da Silva Ferreira, 71. Soccer player who was born into poverty in Africa and became one of the world’s top scorers during the 1960s.

Jan. 7

— Run Run Shaw, 107, a pioneering movie producer who popularized the kung fu genre and was an entertainment mogul in Asia, in Hong Kong.

— Thomas V. Jones, who was Northrup Corp.’s chief executive officer for 30 years and took it to the top tanks of aerospace companies during the Cold War while weathering a number of scandals, in Los Angeles, of pulmonary fibrosis.

Jan. 9

— Amiri Baraka, 79, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, in Newark, New Jersey.

— Dale Mortensen, 74, a Nobel laureate in economics and a longtime professor at Northwestern University, in Illinois.

— Franklin McCain, 73, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960.

Jan. 11

— Ariel Sharon, 85, a military and political leader in Israel for half a century who was revered by some and reviled by others, near Tel Aviv eight years after a stroke put him in a coma.

Jan. 15

— Roger Lloyd Pack, 69, a British film and television actor best known for playing the dim-witted street sweeper Trigger on the sitcom “Only Fools and Horses,” in London. He had pancreatic cancer.

Jan. 16

— Hiroo Onoda, 91, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in a jungle in the Philippines and surrender 29 years after the end of World II, in Tokyo.

— Ruth Robinson Duccini, 95, the last of the original female Munchkins from the 1939 movie “Wizard of Oz,” in Las Vegas of natural causes.

— Russell Johnson, 89, the actor who played “The Professor,” the fix-it man who kept his fellow castaways on TV’s “Gilligan’s Island” supplied with gadgets.

Jan. 17

— Suchitra Sen, 82, a legendary Indian actress known for her memorable roles in Bengali-language and Hindu Bollywood films, in Kolkata of heart failure.

Jan. 20

— Claudio Abado, 80, a star in a great generation of Italian conductors revered for developing a rapport with members of the world’s leading orchestras, in Bologna after a long illness.

Jan. 24

— Shulamit Aloni, 85, an Israeli legislator who championed civil rights and was fiercely critical of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, near Tel Aviv.

Jan. 26

— Jose Emilio Pacheco, 74, widely regarded as one of Mexico’s foremost poets and writers, in Mexico City.

Jan. 27

— Pete Seeger, 94, the banjo-picking troubadour who sang for migrant workers, students and star-struck presidents in a career that introduced generations of Americans to their folk music heritage, in New York.

Jan. 28

— Blas Pinar, 95, a far-right Spanish politician who voiced support for Gen. Francisco Franco’s military dictatorship after the introduction of democracy and was elected to the Spanish parliament on the slogan “God, country, justice,” in Madrid after a bout of ill health.

— Tom Sherak, 68, a former president of the U.S. Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences and a long-time movie marketing and distribution executive, in Calabasas, California, after a 12-year battle with prostate cancer.

Jan. 31

— Miklos Jancso, 92, a Hungarian filmmaker who won the best director award at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival, in Budapest after a long illness.

FEBRUARY

Feb. 1

— Maximillian Schell, 83, an Austrian-born actor and fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood star and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” in Innsbruck after a “sudden illness.”

Feb. 2

— Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote and created a gallery of slackers, charlatans and other characters so vivid he was regarded as one of the world’s finest actors, in New York of an apparent drug overdose.

— Gerd Albrecht, a German conductor who led orchestras in the Czech Republic, Japan and Denmark and worked to bring music to children, in Berlin.

— William “Bunny Rugs” Clarke, 65, the husky-voiced lead singer of the internationally popular reggae band Third World, in Orlando, Florida of leukemia.

Feb. 3

— Joan Mondale, 83, wife of a former U.S. vice president who lobbied so vigorously for the arts the she was nicknamed “Joan of Arts” and redefined the role of second lady, in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Feb. 4

— Vasil Bilak 96, a former hard-line communist leader who paved the way for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Feb. 5

— Robert A. Dahl, 98, an esteemed and influential political scientist who in such books as “Who Governs” championed democracy in theory and evaluated it in practice, in Connecticut.

Feb. 9

— Gabriel Axel, the first Dane to win an Oscar for best foreign film for “Babette’s Feast,” which he directed.

Feb. 10

— Shirley Temple Black 85, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of 1930s Depression-era moviegoers and later had a successful diplomatic career, near San Francisco.

— Els Borst, 81, a former Dutch health minister who drafted the nation’s landmark 2002 law permitting euthanasia, is found dead in her garage in Utrecht.

Feb. 12

— Sid Caesar, 91, an actor-comedian who invented television sketch comedy and gave it stature as a funhouse mirror of everyday life, in the Los Angeles area.

Feb. 13

— Ralph Waite, 85. He played the kind-and-steady patriarch of a tight-knit rural Southern family on the TV series “The Waltons.”

Feb. 15

— Horst Rechelbecker, 72, an Austrian immigrant who founded the beauty products company Aveda Corp., in Wisconsin.

Feb. 18

— Maria von Trapp, 99, the last surviving member of Austria’s famous Von Trapp Family Singers depicted in the Broadway musical and film, “The Sound of Music,” in Vermont.

— Mavis Gallant, 91, the Montreal-born writer who carved out an international reputation as a short story author while living for decades in Paris where she died.

Feb. 19

— Miroslav Standera, 95, a fighter-pilot who fled Czechoslovakia to fight for the British and French air forces during World War II, in the Czech city of Plzen.

Feb. 20

—Walter D. Ehlers, 92. During the D-Day invasion, he accomplished awe-inspiring acts of bravery, earning a Medal of Honor for knocking out two German machine-gun nests and saving countless Allied soldiers’ lives.

Feb. 23

— Alice Herz Sommer, 110, believed to be the oldest survivor of the Holocaust, whose devotion to music and to her son sustained her during two years in a Nazi prison camp and who became the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, in London. No cause of death was given.

Feb. 24

— Harold Ramis, 69, the bespectacled “Ghostbusters” sidekick to Bill Murray whose early grounding in live comedy led to such classics as “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” ”Caddyshack” and “Groundhog Day,” near Chicago.

— Franny Breecher, 92, lead guitarist for Bill Haley and the Comets, who helped kick off the rock and roll era with “Rock Around the Clock” in 1955, in Pennsylvania.

Feb. 25

— Henry Casso, 82, a longtime civil rights leader in New Mexico who worked his way out of an orphanage to become a noted educational scholar and founder of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Feb. 26

— Paco de Lucia, 66, one of the world’s greatest guitarists who dazzled audiences with his lightning speed flamenco rhythms and finger work, in Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Feb. 27

— Huber Matos Benitez, 95, who helped lead the Cuban revolution as one of Fidel Castro’s key lieutenants before his efforts to resign from the burgeoning communist government landed him in prison for 20 years, in the Miami area after suffering a heart attack.

— Jan Hoet, 77, a Belgian contemporary art director who organized exhibitions in private homes and curated Germany’s Documenta art fair, in Ghent, Belgium.

Feb. 28

— Rotislav Belykov, 94, chief engineer on the MiG fighter planes that have been the backbone of the Soviet and Russian air forces, in Moscow.

MARCH

March 1

— Alain Resnais, 91, the seminal French filmmaker whose “Last Year at Marienbad” extended his influence across generations, in Paris.

March 2

— Justin Kaplan, 88, an author and cultural historian with a taste for troublemaking who wrote a definitive, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Mark Twain and spiced the popular canon as a general editor of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He had Parkinson’s disease.

March 8

— Gerard Mortrier, 70, a Belgian opera director whose nonconformist style often grated with the tradition-bound elite and who became a fierce avant-garde impresario, in Brussels, after a protracted battle with pancreatic cancer.

March 9

— Mohammad Qasim Fahim, 57, Afghanistan’s influential vice president and a leading commander in the alliance that fought the Taliban and who was later accused with other warlords of targeting civilian areas during the civil war, in Kabul of natural causes.

— Melba Hernandez, 92, one of two women who helped Fidel Castro launch his revolutionary battle with a failed 1953 attack on a military barracks and who later was named a “Heroine of the Cuban Revolution,” in Havana of complications from diabetes.

— William Clay Ford, 88, the owner of the Detroit Lions and last surviving grandchild of automotive pioneer Henry Ford.

March 10

— Joe McGuiness, 71, the adventurous and news-making writer and reporter who skewered the marketing of Richard Nixon in “The Selling of the President 1968,” in Worcester, Massachusetts, of complications from prostate cancer.

March 11

— Bob Crow, 52, a British transport union leader — a hero to many of his members but a scourge to London commuters — in London.

March 12

— Vera Chytilova, 85, one of the leading filmmakers in the new wave of Czech cinema in the 1960s, in Prague after battling an unspecified illness for years.

— Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, 82, a former president of Sierra Leone who oversaw the end of his country’s brutal civil war, in Freetown.

March 14

— Tony Benn, 88, a committed socialist who irritated and fascinated Britons through a career that spanned five decades and who renounced his aristocratic title rather than leave the House of Commons, in London.

March 15

— Scott Asheton, 64, drummer for the influential punk rock band the Stooges, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, of a heart attack.

— Clarissa Dickson Wright, 66, a vivid and outspoken British television personality who found fame as half of the food-loving “Two Fat Ladies,” in Edinburgh, Scotland.

March 16

— Joseph Fan Zhongliang, 97, the underground Roman Catholic bishop of Shanghai who spent decades in prison and under house arrest, in Shanghai.

— Mitch Leigh, 86, a successful advertising jingle writer with an entrepreneurial side whose attempt at writing for a Broadway show became the instant, celebrated hit “Man of La Mancha,” in New York of pneumonia and complications from a stroke.

March 17

— L’Wren Scott, believed to be 49, who left her small-town Utah home to become a model in Paris, then a top Hollywood stylist and finally a high-end fashion designer best known as longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger, in New York, an apparent suicide.

— Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, 103, the arts and fashion patron and political benefactor who funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars to former presidential candidate John Edwards that was used to hide his mistress.

March 19

— Robert Strauss, 95, a prominent Democratic party powerbroker and former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, in Washington.

— Fred Phelps Sr., 84, the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of U.S. soldiers, on America’s tolerance for gay people.

March 20

— Kushwant Singh, 99, a journalist, editor and prolific writer whose work ranged from serious histories to joke collections to one of post-independence India’s great novels, in New Delhi.

— Murray Weidenbaum, 87, a White House economic adviser who counseled five presidents, in St. Louis, Missouri.

March 21

— Ignatius Zakka Iwas, 80, the patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church and leader of one of the oldest Christian sects, in Germany.

— James Rebhorn, 65, a prolific character actor whose film credits included “Homeland,” ”Scent of a Woman” and “My Cousin Vinny,” and who also appeared on Broadway, in South Orange, New Jersey. He had skin cancer.

— Patricia Wymore Flynn, a Hollywood actress and cattle rancher who was the widow of swashbuckling screen legend Errol Flynn, in Jamaica’s Portland parish of pulmonary disease.

March 23

— Dave Brockie, 50, who as “Oderus Urungus” fronted the alien-costumed heavy metal band GWAR during graphic, fake blood-soaked stage shows for more than three decades, in Richmond, Virginia.

— Tasos Mitsopoulos, 48, Cyprus defense minister, in Nicosia of a brain hemorrhage.

— Adolfo Suarez, 81. Spain’s first democratically elected prime minister after decades of right-wing rule under Gen. Francisco Franco.

March 25

— Jonathan Schell, 70, the crusading author, journalist and anti-war activist who condemned conflicts from Vietnam to Iraq and warned of nuclear holocaust in terrifying detail in his galvanizing best seller “The Fate of the Earth,” In New York. He had cancer.

March 27

— James Schlesinger, 85, a one-time economics professor and longtime nuclear strategist who held a long string of Cabinet and other high-level positions in three U.S. administrations, in Baltimore. He had pneumonia.

March 28

— Jeremiah Denton, 89, a former senator who survived 7 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word “torture” in Morse code during a television interview, in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

— Yousef Hamadani Cohen, 98, Iran’s former chief rabbi and one of the cornerstones of its Jewish community, in Tehran.

March 29

— Hobart Laidlaw Alter, 80, known as Hobie, who built lightweight boards that turned surfing into a mesmerizing new water sport and became the lynchpin of a worldwide equipment empire, in California.

— Oldrich Skacha, 72, a Czech photographer whose pictures captured late President Vaclav Havel and the dissident movement in communist Czechoslovakia, in Prague.

March 30

— Kate O’Mara, 74, a British actress best known for her role in the 1980s soap opera “Dynasty,” in southern England after a brief, unspecified illness.

— Harry Richard Black, 92, an artist who created the Mr. Clean character that became a long-lasting advertising hit and worked on Smokey the Bear ads for the U.S. Forest Service, in Ohio.

March 31

— Frankie Knuckles, 59, an award-winning Chicago disc jockey known as the “Godfather of House Music” and who worked with artists including Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, in Chicago.

— Charles H. Keating Jr., 90, the notorious financier who served prison time and was disgraced for his role in the costliest savings and loan failure in the U.S., in Phoenix.

APRIL

April 3

— Paul Salamunovich, 86, longtime director of the Los Angeles Master Chorale who helped score movies including “The Godfather,” in Los Angeles of complications from West Nile virus.

April 4

— Anja Niedringhaus, a courageous and talented Associated Press photographer who covered everything from battlefields to sports fields, shot and killed while covering elections in eastern Afghanistan.

— Kumba Yala, 61 a former president of Guinea-Bissau who was elected in 2000 and ousted in a military coup three years later, in the West African capital of Bissau.

— Curtis Bill Pepper, 96, a longtime foreign correspondent for Newsweek and the author of eight books, in Todi, Italy.

April 5

— Peter Matthiessen, 86, a rich man’s son who spurned a life of leisure and embarked on extraordinary physical and spiritual quests while producing acclaimed books such as “The Snow Leopard” and “At Play in the Fields of the Lord,” on Long Island, New York. He had leukemia.

April 6

— Mickey Rooney, 93, the pint-sized, precocious actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater, in Los Angles.

April 7

— Peaches Geldof, 25, a model, media personality and daughter of Irish singer Bob Geldof, in Wrotham, England.

— Mary Cheever, 95, an accomplished author and poet best known as the enduring spouse and widow of John Cheever, surviving by decades a husband who used their lonely, but lasting, marriage as an inspiration for some of his most memorable stories, in Ossining, New York.

April 9

— Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, 87, a former Trinidad and Tobago prime minister who was held hostage for days and shot during a bloody 1990 coup attempt, in Port-of-Spain, of several conditions related to diabetes.

April 10

— Jim Flaherty, 64, former Canadian finance minister and a fixture on the world financial stage who had retired just three weeks ago, in Ottawa.

— Richard Hoggart, 95, a distinguished cultural historian and significant witness in the court case that ended British censorship of “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” in London.

— Sue Townsend 68, a British comic author and social critic who created the angst-ridden teenage diarist Andrian Mole, in Leicester, England after a stroke.

— Phyllis Frelich, 70, an award-winning actress who starred in the Broadway version of “Children of a Lesser God,” in Temple City, California, of a degenerative neurological disease, progressive supernuclear palsy, or PSP, for which there is no known treatment.

April 11

— Patrick Seale, a veteran British journalist and author of books on Middle Eastern affairs as well as one of the world’s leading historians on Syria, in London. He had brain cancer.

April 12

— Jesse Winchester, 69, a U.S.-born singer who established himself in Montreal after dodging the Vietnam war and wrote songs covered by the likes of Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett and Joan Baez. He had cancer.

April 14

— Nina Cassian, 89, a Romanian poet and translator who obtained political asylum in the United States after the communist-era secret police found her critical poetry scribbled in a friend’s diary, in New York after a heart attack.

April 15

— John C. Houbolt, 95, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA’s successful moon landing in 1969, in Maine, of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

April 17

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, the Nobel laureate whose novels and short stories exposed tens of millions of readers to Latin American passion, superstition, violence, persecution and inequality, in Mexico City.

April 19

— Kevin Sharp, 43, a country music singer who recorded multiple chart-topping songs and survived a well-publicized battle with cancer, in California, of complications from past stomach surgeries and digestive issues.

April 20

— Alistair MacLeod, 77, an award-winning Canadian author who was best known for his short stories and novel “No Great Mischief,” in Windsor, Ontario of complications from a stroke.

— Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, 76, the boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice.

April 21

— Win Tin, 85, a prominent journalist who became Myanmar’s longest-serving political prisoner after challenging military rule by co-founding the National League for Democracy, in Yangon. He had been hospitalized for respiratory problems.

— Daniel Anker 50, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who directed and produced a documentary detailing a 1935 sled run in Alaska to deliver a lifesaving serum, in Anchorage of pneumonia, a complication of his lymphoma.

April 23

— Mark Shand, 62, the brother-in-law of the Prince of Wales and a chairman of an elephant conservation group, in New York after sustaining a serious head injury in a fall.

— Conrado Marrero, 102, a diminutive Cuban pitcher who threw for the Washington Senators in the 1950s and in 2011 became the oldest living former Major League Baseball player.

April 24

— Hans Hollein, an Austrian architect and designer who won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize and whose work ranged from big museums to tiny shops to furniture and sun glasses, in Vienna, after a long illness.

April 25

— Stefanie Zweig, 81, a German-Jewish writer best known for her autobiographical novel “Nowhere in Africa,” in Berlin.

April 26

— Rashad Harden, 34, a house music and footwork pioneer who performed as DJ Rashad, in Chicago of an apparent drug overdose.

April 27

— Herman Hyman, 82, who founded The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in the 1960s and saw the premium coffee chain grow to hundreds of stores around the world, in California.

April 29

— Assi Dayan, 68, an Israeli actor and director known for his trailblazing films and troubled personal life, in Tel Aviv.

— Walter R. Walsh, 106, who captured gangsters as an FBI agent in the 1930s and went on to train Marine snipers and become the longest-lived Olympian, in Arlington, Virginia.

— Al Feldstein, 88, whose 28 years at Mad transformed the satirical magazine into a cultural institution, in Montana.

— Bob Hoskins, 71, a British actor whose career ranged from noir drama “Mona Lisa” to animated fantasy “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” in London after a bout with pneumonia. He had Parkinson’s disease.

April 30

— Bassem Sabry, 31, one of Egypt’s most respected bloggers and a democracy advocate who chronicled the country’s turmoil since the 2011 uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak, in Cairo after an accidental fall from a high-rise building.

— Nicholas Martin, 75, an actor-turned-director who managed two theater companies in Massachusetts and earned a Tony nomination award for directing “Vania and Sonia and Masha and Spike” on Broadway last year, in New York. He had throat cancer.

MAY

May 1

— Juan Farrell, 71, a Cuban musician who for more than four decades was the driving force behind the big band salsa orchestra Los Van Van, in Havana.

May 3

— Efrem Zimbalist Jr., 95, the son of famous musical parents who established his own lasting celebrity in two of American television’s most popular series, “77 Sunset Strip” and “The FBI,” in Solvang, California.

May 4

— William Worthy, 92, an American foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, in Massachusetts.

May 6

— Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, a reclusive German art collector with a long-secret hoard of 1,280 major works that set off an international uproar last year over the fate of art looted by the Nazis, in Munich.

— Sheikh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, a leading figure of Sufism, the mystical branch of Islam, in northern Cyprus.

— Bill Dana, 83, a famed research test pilot who flew the X-15 rocket plane at record supersonic speeds and other pioneering aircraft including one that led to the development of NASA’s space shuttle, in Phoenix of complications from Parkinson’s disease.

— Farley Mowat, 92, one of Canada’s best-known writers regarded as a master storyteller and tireless defender of nature and wildlife, in Ontario. He had suffered a stroke in January.

— Cornelius Gurlitt, 81, a reclusive German collector whose long-secret hoard of well over 1,000 artworks triggered an international uproar over the fate of art looted by the Nazis.

May 8

— Colin Pillinger, 70, an ebullient space scientist who captured the popular imagination with his failed attempt to land a British probe on Mars, in Cambridge, England of a brain hemorrhage.

— Herb Lotman, 80, a food industry entrepreneur and founder of Keystone Foods, one of the largest such companies in the world, in Philadelphia of complications from heart failure.

— Nancy Malone, 79, veteran actress, director and producer, in Los Angeles of complications from leukemia.

May 10

— Andres Cararasco, 67, an Argentine neuroscientist who challenged pesticide regulators to re-examine one of the world’s most widely used weed killers, in Buenos Aires.

May 11

— Jeb Stuart Magruder, 79, a Watergate conspirator-turned minister who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the infamous apartment break-in in the 1970s that led to his downfall, in Connecticut.

May 12

— Jacinto Convit, 100, a Venezuelan physician who played a key role in fighting two of the world’s most feared diseases, leprosy and the tropical illness leshmaniasis, in Caracas.

— H.R. Giger, 74, a Swiss artist who designed the creature in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic “Alien,” in Zurich of injuries suffered in a fall.

May 13

— Malik Bendjelloul, 36, the cash-strapped filmmaker who shot to Hollywood stardom overnight with the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” about an obscure Mexican-American folk singer who became a cult hero in apartheid-era South Africa, in Stockholm, an apparent suicide.

May 15

— Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, a former Belgian prime minister who worked as hard to keep his linguistically divided nation together as he did to give Europe more unity, in France after a fall. He had been diagnosed earlier with cancer.

May 16

— Viktor Sukhodrev, 81, a Soviet interpreter who for three decades brought the words of Kremlin leaders to the English-speaking world, in Moscow. No cause of death was given.

— Clyde Snow, 86, a forensic anthropologist who worked on cases ranging from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to mass graves in Argentina, in Norman, Oklahoma. He had lung cancer and emphysema.

May 18

— Radu Florescu, 88, a Romanian-born historian, professor and philanthropist who intrigued American culture by writing a book linking the fictional Count Dracula the 15th century Romanian prince Vlad the Impaler, in Mougins, France, of complications connected to pneumonia.

— Dobrica Cosic, 92, a nationalist writer who served briefly as Yugoslavia’s president as the country unraveled in civil war, in Belgrade.

— Jerry Vale, 83, the beloved crooner known for his high tenor voice and romantic songs in the 1950s and early 1960s, in California.

— Gordon Willis, 82, one of Hollywood’s most celebrated and influential cinematographers, nicknamed “The Prince of Darkness” for his subtle but indelible touch on such definitive 1970s releases as “The Godfather,” ”Annie Hall” and “All the President’s Men,” on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He had cancer.

May 19

— Sam Greenlee, 83, a poet and novelist best known for his 1969 novel “The Spook Who Sat by the Door,” later adapted into a political drama movie, in Chicago.

— Jack Brabham, 88. Three-time Formula One champion who famously pushed his car to the finish line to claim his first season title.

— Sante Kimes, 79. She and her son made up a notorious grifter team convicted of the murders of a wealthy widow in New York and a businessman in Los Angeles.

May 20

— Arthur Gelb, 90, a veteran editor whose news sense, arts sensibility and journalistic vigor sculpted The New York Times for decades, in New York of complications from a stroke.

— Prince Rupert Lowenstein, 80, a Bavarian aristocrat who as their manager helped make the Rolling Stones as rich as kings, in London. He had Parkinson’s disease.

May 21

— Jaime Lusinchi, 89, a former Venezuelan president who struggled to contain an economic crisis sparked by plunging oil prices in the 1980s and then saw his reputation tarnished by allegations of corruption after he left office, in Caracas. He had been receiving treatment for an infection.

— Ricky Grigg, 77, a former top-ranked by wave surfer and oceanographer whose work confirmed one of Charles Darwin’s theories about the origin of tropical islands, in Honolulu of pneumonia.

May 22

— Donald Levine, 86, the Hasbro executive credited as the father of G.I. Joe for developing the world’s first action figure, in Providence, Rhode Island. He had cancer.

May 24

— Michael Schmidt, 68, a German photographer who documented post-war Berlin in stark black and white images and whose work was displayed in art galleries, in Berlin.

May 25

— Bunny Yeager, 85, a model turned pin-up photographer who helped jump start career of then unknown Betty Page, in North Miami.

— Herb Jeffries, 100, the jazz singer who performed with Duke Ellington and was known as the “Bronze Buckaroo” in a series of all-black 1930s westerns, in Los Angeles of heart failure.

— Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90. Communist leader who imposed harsh military rule on Poland in 1981 in an attempt to crush the pro-democracy Solidarity movement but later allowed reforms that ended up dismantling the regime.

May 26

— Manuel Uribe, 48. Mexican man once listed as the world’s heaviest human at 1,230 pounds (560 kilograms).

May 27

— Massimo Vignelli, 83, a renounced graphic artist whose vision ranged from subterranean transit maps to airline logos, in New York.

May 28

— Maya Angelou, 86, a poet and author who survived the harshest of childhoods to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page and reciter of the most popular U.S. presidential inaugural poem in history, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

May 29

— Karlheinz Boehm, 86, an Austrian actor and human rights activist who founded an aid group dedicated to helping people in Ethiopia, near Salzburg.

May 30

— Joan Lorring 88, an Oscar-nominated actress with a long career in films and on Broadway, in Sleepy Hollow, New York.

May 31

— Mary Soames, 91 the last surviving child of British leader Winston Churchill and author of several books about her family, in London.

— Marilyn Beck 85, an entertainment columnist who spent a four-decade career interviewing Hollywood luminaries, in Los Angeles. She had lung cancer.

— Martha Hyer, 89, and Academy Award-nominated actress who starred alongside the likes of Frank Sinatra and Humphrey Bogart and later gained notoriety for an extravagant lifestyle, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

JUNE

June 1

— Ann B. Davis, 88, who became the U.S.’ favorite and most famous housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson on television’s “The Brady Bunch,” in San Antonio, Texas, after suffering a fall.

June 2

— Alexander Shulgun, 88, a respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy, in California. He had liver cancer.

June 4

— Doc Neeson, 67, the charismatic frontman for the seminal Australian rock band the Angels, in Sydney. He had brain cancer.

— Susan Spencer-Wendel, an American writer whose best-selling book “Until I Say Goodbye’ chronicled her fight to live joyfully as she battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, in Florida.

June 6

— Eric Hill, 86, whose effort to entertain his young son with a simple drawing of a mischievous dog named Spot blossomed into a popular series of children’s books that sold 60 million copies, in California.

June 9

— Rik Mayall, 56, one of a generation of performers who injected post-punk energy into British comedy, in London.

— Bob Welch, 57, the last major league baseball pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season, from a broken neck after an accidental fall.

June 11

— Ruby Dee, 91, an acclaimed actor and civil rights activist whose versatile career spanned stage, radio, television and film, in New Rochelle, New York.

— Chester Nez, 93, the last of the Navajos who developed a code using their language that the Japanese were unable to break in World War II, in Arizona of kidney failure.

— Elias Saavedra, 96, one of the last survivors of the Bataan Death March when tens of thousands of soldiers were forced to march to Japanese prison camps during World War II, in New Mexico.

— Rafael Fruebeck de Bergos, 80, one of Spain’s most prestigious conductors who performed with orchestras around the world in Madrid. He had cancer.

June 12

— Jimmy Scott, 88, a jazzman with an ethereal man-child voice who found success late in life with an award-nominated album “All The Way,” in Las Vegas. He had battled health problems stemming from a genetic hormone deficiency.

June 13

— Chuck Noll, 82, the Hall of Fame football coach who won a record four Super Bowl titles with the NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers.

— Gyula Grosics, 88, goalkeeper of Hungary’s Golden Team of the 1950s. He played 86 times for Hungary from 1947 to 1962, including in the famous 6-3 victory over England at Wembley Stadium in 1953 — the host team’s first home loss to a non-British opponent.

June 15

— Casey Kasem, 82, the world famous broadcaster with the cheerful manner and gentle voice who became king of the top 40 countdown with a show that ran for decades, in Los Angeles. He had advanced Parkinson’s disease and Lowy Body disease, a form of dementia.

— Daniel Keyes, 86, whose novel “Flowers for Algenon” became a classroom staple that explored the treatment of the mentally disabled and the ethics of manipulating human intelligence, in Florida, of complications from pneumonia.

June 16

— Charles Barsotti, 80, whose New Yorker magazine cartoons plumbed the human condition featuring characters like the psychiatrist dog and the pilgrim with the walking stick, in Kansas City, Missouri. He had brain cancer.

— Tony Gwynn, 54, the Hall of Fame baseball player who became one of the best hitters in the sport’s history, winning eight batting titles during a storied career with the San Diego Padres, of cancer.

June 18

— Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and band leader with a tireless inventiveness who influenced generations of jazzmen with his distinctive hard bop sound, in New Rochelle, New York.

— Stephanie Kwolke, 90, a pioneering Dupont chemist who developed the tough fibers used in Kevlar body armor that helped save the lives of thousands of law enforcement officers and soldiers in Delaware.

June 19

— Gerry Goffin, 75, a prolific and multi-dimensional lyricist who with his then-wife and songwriter partner Carole King wrote such hits as “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” ”(You Make Me Feel Like) a Natural Woman,” ”Up On The Roof,” and “The Loco-Motion,” in Los Angeles.

— Avraham Shalom, 86, the former director of Israel’s Shin Bet security service who led the agency through some of its greatest achievements before resigning in disgrace.

June 21

— Gerry Conlon, 60, who was unjustly imprisoned for an Irish Republican Army killing and inspired an Oscar-nominated film, in Belfast after a long battle with cancer.

— Jimmy C. Newman, 86, a Grand Ole Opry member known for mixing Cajun and country music, in Nashville, Tennessee.

June 22

— Fuad Ajami,68, a Middle East scholar who rallied support for the American invasion of Iraq and advised policy makers in the Bush administration, in Palo Alto, California. He had cancer.

— Steve Rossi, 82, one half of the comic duo of Allen & Rossi, which became a favorite of “The Ed Sullivan Show” and other American TV variety shows, in Las Vegas, Nevada. He had cancer of the esophagus.

— Felix Dennis, 67, a flamboyant publisher who co-edited the 1960s underground magazine Oz and went on to build a magazine empire, in Dorsington, England. He had cancer.

— Teenie Hodges. 68, a diminutive guitarist and songwriter of “Take Me to the River” songwriter who became a towering figure in the Memphis music scene, in Dallas of complications from emphysema.

June 24

— Eli Wallach, 98, raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays and earned film immortality as a quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” in New York.

— Ramon Jose Velasquez, 97, a former Venezuelan president known for his opposition to dictatorship in the South American country, in Caracas.

— David Taylor, 60, a former UEFA general secretary who was key to a Scottish and Irish proposal to expand the European Championship from 16 teams to 24.

June 25

— Anna Maria Matute, 88, an award-winning Spanish writer best known for her books set during the Spanish Civil War, in Barcelona.

June 26

— Julius Rudel, 93, who was the general director and principal conductor for the New York City Opera for 22 years and led other operas around the world, in New York.

— Howard Baker, 88, whose question “What did the president know and when did he know it?” during U.S. Senate hearings on Watergate that brought down Richard Nixon’s presidency sliced to the heart of the scandal, in Tennessee, of complications from a stroke.

— Mary Rodgers, 83, daughter of famed Broadway composer Richard Rodgers, who found her own fame as composer of “Once Upon a Mattress” and as author of the body-shifting book “Freaky Friday,” in New York.

June 27

— Leslie Manigat, 83, a prominent figure in the Haitian political establishment whose rule as president was cut short by a military coup in 1988, in Port-au-Prince.

— Bobby Womack, 70, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn.

June 28

— Meshach Taylor 67, who played a lovable ex-convict surrounded by boisterous Southern belles in the American television sit com “Designing Women” and appeared in numerous other TV and film roles, near Los Angeles. He had cancer.

June 29

— Paul Horn, 84, an award-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer, in Vancouver, British Columbia.

June 30

— Paul Mazursky, 84, the innovative and versatile director who depicted the absurdity of modern life in films such as “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” and “An Unmarried Woman,” in Los Angeles of pulmonary cardiac arrest.

— Alvaro Corcuera, 56, a Roman Catholic priest who led the Legion of Christ religious order through the revelations that its founder was a pedophile and a fraud, in Mexico City. He had a brain tumor.

JULY

July 1

— David Greenglass, 92, who served 10 years in prison for his role in the most explosive atomic spy case in the Cold War and gave testimony that sent his brother-in-law and sister to the electric chair in 1953, in New York.

July 2

— Louis Zamperini, 97, an Olympic runner who survived a bomber crash in the Pacific Ocean, weeks adrift and then years as a Japanese prisoner of war and became the subject of a celebrated book and movie, in Los Angeles of pneumonia.

July 3

— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, 89, a founder of the Jewish Renewal movement and a widely influential figure in Jewish thought and practice, in Colorado.

July 4

— Richard Mellon Scaife, 82, the billionaire heir to the Mellon banking and oil fortunes and a newspaper publisher who funded libertarian and conservative causes and various projects to discredit President Bill Clinton, in Pittsburgh. He had an untreatable form of cancer.

July 5

— Metropolitan Volodymyr, 78, the head of Ukraine’s Orthodox church who led it for more than two decades during the tumultuous post-Soviet period, in Kiev.

July 7

— Eduard Shevardnadze, 86, the Soviet Union’s foreign minister who helped end the Cold War but then as Georgia’s president was forced into retirement by parliament, in Tbilisi.

— Dick Jones, 87, the voice of Pinocchio in the classic 1940 Walt Disney cartoon, in Los Angeles.

— Alfredo Di Stefano, 88, the Argentina-born Real Madrid player hailed as the most important component in the team’s mid-20th century ascent to becoming a global football powerhouse.

July 9

— Eileen Ford, 92, a modeling agency founder who shaped a generation’s standards of beauty and launched the careers of Candace Bergen, Lauren Hutton, Jane Fonda and countless others, in New Jersey.

— David Azrieli, 92, a Canadian-Israeli billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist, in rural Quebec north of Montreal.

July 11

— John Siegenthaler, 86, a journalist who edited The Tennessean, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the Kennedy administration in the 1960s, in Nashville, Tennessee.

— Tommy Ramone, 65, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, in New York. He had bile duct cancer.

— David Legeno, 50, a British actor who played a werewolf in three “Harry Potter” films, in California’s Death Valley of heatstroke. He may have died days earlier.

July 12

— Emil Bobu, 87, a devoted aide of ex-Romanian leader Nicolae Ceausescu who was sent to quell protests that sparked the 1989 revolution, in Bucharest of a heart attack.

— Lorin Maazel, 84, a world-renowned conductor whose career included seven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic.

July 13

— Loren Mazel, 84, a world-renowned conductor whose prodigious career included seven years at the helm of the New York Philharmonic, in Castleton, Virginia, of pneumonia.

— Nadine Gordimer, 90, who won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1991 for novels that explored the relationships and human cost of racial conflict in apartheid-era South Africa and who was a determined political activist in the struggle to end white minority rule in her country, in Johannesburg.

— Thomas Berger, 89, the witty and eclectic novelist who re-imagined the American West in the historic “Little Big Man” and mastered genres ranging from detective stories to domestic farce, in Nyack, New York.

July 14

— Jack W. Tocco, 70, who U.S. authorities say was a Detroit mob boss, in Michigan.

— Alice Coachman Davis, 90, the first black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. Davis won Olympic gold in the high jump at the 1948 games in London.

July 15

— James MacGregor Burns, 95, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and political scientist who analyzed the nature of presidential leadership and wrote two candid biographies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, in Massachusetts.

July 16

— Johnny Winter, 70, a Texas blues legend, known for his lightning fast blues guitar riffs, long white hair and collaborations with the likes of Jimi Hendrix and childhood hero Muddy Waters, in Zurich.

July 17

— Elaine Stritch, the brash theater performer whose gravelly, gin-laced voice and impeccable timing made her a Broadway legend, in Birmingham, Michigan.

— Otto Piene, 86, a German artist known for his colorful paintings and gigantic open air sculptures, in Berlin.

— Karl Albrecht, 94, co-founder of the Aldi grocery store empire and one of the world’s richest people, in Essen, Germany.

July 19

— James Garner, 86, the wry and handsome leading man in films and television, best known as the gambler Bret Maverick in “Maverick” and the detective Jim Rockford in “The Rockford Files,” in Los Angeles.

— Lionel Ferbos, 103, believed to be the oldest working jazz musician, performing regularly with his trumpet until last year, in New Orleans.

— Norberto Odebrecht, 93, founder of the Brazilian construction company behind large-scale projects such as dams and highways in the Amazon jungle and some World Cup stadiums, in Rio de Janeiro.

— Skye McCole Bartusiak, 21, an actress who played Mel Gibson’s young daughter in the 2000 film “The Patriot,” in Houston.

July 21

— Dan Borislow, 52, the inventor of majicJack and a pioneer in developing phone calls over the Internet, in West Palm Beach, Florida, of a heart attack.

July 22

— Robert Panara, 94, who lost his hearing as a child and became a leading educator of the deaf and a pioneer of studies of deaf culture, in Rochester, New York.

July 25

— Carlo Bergonzi, 90, an Italian tenor considered one of the most authoritative interpreters of Verdi’s operas, in Milan.

— Manny Roth, 94, a colorful club owner in Greenwich Village, New York, whose Cafe Wha? and its basement-level stage was a rite of passage in the 1960s for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and many others, in California.

July 28

— Theodore “Dutch” VanKirk, 93, the last surviving member of the crew that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, hastening the end of World War II and forcing the world into the atomic age, in Georgia.

— James Shigeta, 85, who played the lead in the 1961 movie musical “Flower Drum Song” and appeared in other movies and TV shows, in Beverly Hills, California.

July 29

— Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones, 88, multi-sport star who was the last surviving member of the Kentucky Wildcats’ “Fabulous Five” that won the university’s first men’s basketball national championship in 1948; all five starters went on to claim Olympic gold that year with the U.S. team.

July 30

— Robert Halmi Sr., 90, a magazine photographer who made a midcareer switch to moving pictures and produced more than 200 programs and miniseries for American television over 50 years, in New York.

— Dick Smith, 92, the Oscar-winning “Godfather of Makeup” who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations of Marlon Brando in “The Godfather” and Linda Blair in “The Exorcist” among many others, in California.

— Robert Drew, 90, a filmmaker and pioneer of the modern documentary who in “Primary” and other movies mastered the intimate, spontaneous style known as cinema verite and schooled a generation of influential directors, in Connecticut.

— Dick Wagner, 71, the skilled guitarist who worked with Alice Cooper, Lou Reed, Kiss and Aerosmith and also co-wrote many of Cooper’s hits, in Arizona, of respiratory failure.

AUGUST

Aug. 1

— Chun Eun-yong, 91, an ex-policeman whose half-century quest for justice for his two slain children led the U.S. Army in 2001 to acknowledge the Korean War refugee massacre at No Gun Ri, in South Korea.

— Charles T. Payne, 89, a World War II veteran who helped liberate a Nazi concentration camp and great uncle of President Barack Obama who was briefly in the public eye during his nephew’s first presidential bid, in Chicago of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Aug.2

— Billie Letts, 76, a novelist whose works included “Where the Heart Is” that was turned into a movie, in Oklahoma.

Aug. 3

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis, 98, a prize-winning mystery writer whose books include the best seller “A Gentle Murder” and numerous other works praised for their psychological suspense, in Palisades, New York.

Aug. 4

— James Brady, 73, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt against President Ronald Reagan and undertook a personal campaign for gun control, in Alexandria, Virginia.

Aug. 5

— Harold J. Greene, 55, the two-star Army major general who became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America’s post-Sept. 11 wars, near Kabul by a gunman believed to be an Afghan soldier.

— Marilyn Burns, 65, an actress best known as the heroine of the 1974 horror classic “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” in Houston.

— Jesse Steinfeld, 87, who became the first U.S. surgeon general ever forced out of office by the president after he campaigned hard against the dangers of smoking during the 1970s Richard Nixon era, in Pomona, California, after suffering a stroke.

Aug. 6

— Richard Marowitz, 88, a World War II veteran who found Hitler’s top hat and brought it home with him, in Albany, New York. He had been battling cancer and dementia.

Aug. 7

— Henry Stone, 93, a fixture on the R&B and disco scene who was instrumental in the careers of Ray Charles, James Brown and KC & the Sunshine Band, in the Miami area.

Aug. 8

— Menachem Golam, 85, a veteran Israeli filmmaker who built an empire on the backs of brawny men beating others senseless in a host of 1980s action films, in Tel Aviv.

— Charles Keating, 72, a British-born Shakespearean actor who was amused by the fame that came with being an American soap opera star on “Another World” and also appeared in many films and television programs, in Connecticut. He had been battling lung cancer.

Aug. 9

— Kevin Ward Jr., 20, who died of blunt force trauma when he was hit by a car driven by NASCAR star Tony Stewart during a dirt-track race in upstate New York.

Aug. 11

— Robin Williams, 63, a brilliant shape-shifter who could channel his frenetic energy into delightful comic characters like “Mrs. Doubtfire” or harness it into richly nuanced work like his Oscar-winning turn in “Good Will Hunting,” in California, of an apparent suicide.

— Vladimir Beara, 85, one of soccer’s greatest goalkeepers who led Yugoslavia to the silver medal at the 1952 Olympics.

Aug. 12

— Lauren Bacall, 89, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most storied marriages, in New York.

Aug. 13

— Emigdio Vazquez, 75. whose bold use of color and uncanny ability to capture everyday people in dramatic moments that made him one of the most influential pioneers of the Chicano art movement, in Newport Beach, California, of pneumonia.

— Simone Camilli, 35, an Associated Press video journalist who was killed in the Gaza Strip when leftover ordnance exploded.

Aug. 14

— Jay Adams, 53, the colorful California rebel who helped transform skateboarding from a simple street pastime into one of the world’s most spectacular sports, in Mexico, of a heart attack.

Aug. 16

— Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, whose reporting from far-flung places made him postwar Germany’s most famous foreign correspondent, in Rhoendorf, Germany.

Aug. 18

— Don Pardo, 96, a durable radio and television announcer whose booming baritone became as much a part of the U.S. cultural landscape as the shows and products he touted, in Arizona.

— Hashim Khan, 100, one of the greatest squash players of all time, who launched Pakistan to squash supremacy, winning seven British Open titles, including his first in 1951 at an age when most players retire.

Aug. 19

— Simin Behbahani, 87, a famed Iranian poet who wrote of the joys of love, demanded equal rights for women and spoke out about the problems of people living in her homeland, in Tehran of heart failure and breathing problems.

— Dinu Patriciu, 64, an emblematic politician from Romania’s post-communist years whose later career as an oil tycoon was marred by scandal, in London of a lung infection. He had been treated for cancer and liver disease.

Aug. 20

— B.K.S. Iyengar, 95, an Indian yoga guru who helped popularize the discipline around the world and wrote 14 books on the subject, in Pune, India where he had been hospitalized for a kidney ailment.

— James Bennett, 76, a Jamaican folk musician nicknamed “Powda” who played a rollicking genre of traditional dance music with the long-running Jolly Boys, in Kingston, of respiratory problems.

Aug. 21

— Albert Reynolds, 81, the risk-taking Irish prime minister who played a key role in delivering peace to Northern Ireland but struggled to keep his own government intact, in Dublin, after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

— Edmund Skoza, 86, an American cardinal who served as governor and financial administrator of the Vatican and was a confidant of St. John Paul II, in Michigan.

— Stephen R. Nagel, 67, a former astronaut who flew on four space shuttle flights, in Missouri, of cancer.

— Robert Hansen, 75, the convicted Alaska serial killer who gained the nickname of “the Butcher Baker” for abducting women in the wilderness during the state’s oil pipeline construction boom in the 1970s.

Aug. 22

— Philippine de Rothschild, 80, an energetic and self-certain grande dame of Bordeaux wine who halted an acting career to run vineyards owned by the family dynasty, in Paris, “from the effects of a serious operation.”

Aug. 24

— Richard Attenborough, 90, a lord and Oscar-winning director for the much lauded “Gandhi” and an unflagging pillar of British cinema, in London.

Aug. 25

— Enrique Zileri, 83, who as director of Peru’s leading newsmagazine defied despotism and battled corruption with stubborn independence, in Lima of complications from throat cancer.

— Willia Greaves, 87, an award-winning co-host and executive producer of a groundbreaking U.S. television news program and a prolific filmmaker whose subjects ranged from Muhammad Ali to the Harlem Renaissance to the black middle class, in New York.

Aug. 27

— Valeri Petrov, 94, Bulgaria’s most prominent, contemporary poet who translated the complete works of Shakespeare, in Sofia after a stroke.

— Ahmed Seif, 63, one of Egypt’s most prominent civil rights lawyers and campaigners, in Cairo of complications from heart surgery.

Aug. 28

— Glenn Cornick, 67, the original bass player in the rock band Jethro Tull, in Hawaii, of congestive heart failure.

— John A. Walker Jr., 77, a former American sailor convicted during the Cold War of leading a family spy ring for the Soviet Union.

Aug. 30

— Manuel Pertegaz, 96, one of Spain’s most admired fashion designers who dressed Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy and Ava Gardner, in Barcelona.

— Joseph Persico, 84, a best-selling author, historian and speech writer for then-New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, in Albany, New York.

Aug. 31

— Stefan Andrei, 83, a foreign minister under communism who decreased Romania’s dependence on the Soviet Union, in Bucharest.

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1

— Sergio Rodriquez, 86, the celebrated designer whose “Mole” chair is among the best known pieces of midcentury Brazilian design, in Rio de Janeiro of liver failure.

Sept. 2

— Norman Gordon, 103, the test cricketer who was the last survivor of the famous Timeless Test of 1939, who played for South Africa in the match against England that lasted 10 days before both teams agreed to call it a draw.

Sept. 3

— Andrew Madoff, 48, the last surviving son of Bernard Madoff who turned his father in and insisted he had been duped into believing history’s most notorious pyramid-schemer was an honest financier.

Sept. 4

— Gustavo Cerati, 55, an Argentine rock star and one of Latin America’s most influential musicians, in Buenos Aires of respiratory arrest.

— Joan Rivers, 81, the acid-tongued comedian who crashed the realm of male-dominated late-night American television and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly-dressed celebrities, in New York, of fatal complications during a medical procedure.

— Ray Leonard, 83, longtime Chicago radio and television personality who introduced listeners and viewers to some of America’s biggest celebrities just as they were getting started, in Illinois.

Sept. 5

— Bruce Morton, 83, veteran TV political correspondent who covered the Kennedy assassination and the United States’ space program, in Washington. He had cancer.

— Noel Hinner, 78, a former chief scientist for NASA who helped plan the scientific exploration of the moon for the Apollo program and later oversaw such projects as the Mars Surveyor Program, in Littleton, Colorado. He had a brain tumor.

Sept. 7

— Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 94, a Japanese film idol who was known as Rikoran and symbolized Japan’s wartime dreams of conquest, in Japan, of heart failure.

Sept. 8

— Magda Olivero , 104, an Italian soprano and one of the most prominent interpreters of the versimo operatic tradition whose career spanned 50 years, in Milan. She had suffered a stroke.

— Gerald Wilson, 96, the dynamic jazz big band leader, composer and arranger whose career lasted more than 75 years, in Los Angeles, of pneumonia.

Sept. 9

— Emilio Botin, 79, a Spanish banking magnate who built the country’s Banco Santander into a global financial giant, in Madrid of a heart attack.

— Bob Suter, 57. Member of the “Miracle On Ice” team that won the Olympic gold medal in 1980 and the father of Minnesota Wild star Ryan Suter.

Sept. 10

— Richard Kiel, 74, the towering actor best known for portraying the steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond movies, in Fresno, California.

Sept. 11

— Cosimo Matassa, 88, a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who recorded New Orleans rock and rhythm and blues from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Sept. 12

— Ian Paisley, 88, the divisive Protestant firebrand preacher who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to became a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years, in Belfast.

— Donald Sinden, 90, a British actor known for his rich voice and varied roles ranging from Shakespeare to television sitcoms, in Romney Marsh, England, of prostate cancer.

— Joe Sample, 75, a pianist, composer and a founding member of the genre-crossing Jazz Crusaders who helped pioneer the electronic jazz-funk fusion style, in Houston, of lung cancer.

Sept. 14

— Isidoro Alvarez, 75, head of Spain’s El Cortes Ingles department store chain who turned his company into an international business with an annual turnover of around $18 billion, in Madrid.

Sept. 15

— Yitzhak Hofi, 87, a former Israeli general and Mossad chief who played a key role in his country’s daring 1970 commando raid in Uganda to free Israeli hostages, in Ramat Gan, Israel.

Sept. 16

— Richard F. Thompson, 84, a University of Southern California neuroscientist whose experiments with rabbits led to breakthrough discoveries of how memories are physically stored in the brain, in California.

Sept. 17

— George Hamilton IV, 77, a Grand Ole Opry member who was one of country music’s first international ambassadors, in Nashville of a heart attack.

— Guinter Kahn, 80, a Florida dermatologist credited with helping develop the first baldness remedy recognized by the U.S. patent and Trademark Office, in Miami.

Sept. 18

— Will Radcliff, 74, who built a multi-billion-dollar global business from flavored, icy Slush Puppie drinks, in Cincinnati.

Sept. 20

— Polly Bergen, 84, an award-winning actress and singer who in a long career played the terrorized wife in “Cape Fear ” and the first woman U.S. president in “Kisses for My President,” in Connecticut.

— J. California Cooper, 82, a prolific writer who was writing plays until Alice Walker suggested she switch to short stories and novels because they were an easier path to a paycheck.

— George Sluizer, 82, the Dutch filmmaker who directed River Phoenix’s last movie “Dark Blood,” in Amsterdam.

Sept. 21

— Mike Harari, 87, an Israeli secret agent who played a major role in planning the Mossad’s revenge attacks against Palestinian militants implicated in the 1972 Munich massacre of the country’s Olympic team, in Tel Aviv.

Sept. 22

— Skip E. Low, 85, a long-time host of a celebrity name-dropping American television talk show who developed a cult following, in Los Angeles of complications from emphysema.

Sept. 24

— Deborah, the dowager duchess of Devonshire, 94, the last of Britain’s witty, unconventional Mitford sisters.

— Christopher Hogwood, 73, a conductor who pioneered the performance of 18th century composers such as Bach and Handel on historically authentic instruments, in Cambridge, England.

Sept. 26

— Raul Alvarez Garin 73, a leader of the 1968 student uprising that culminated in the massacre of protesters in Mexico City in the capital, of cancer.

Sept. 27

— Floyd” Creeky” Creekmore, 98, a rancher who held the record as the world’s oldest performing clown, in Montana, of complications from heart disease.

— James Traficant, 73. Colorful U.S. politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be expelled from Congress since the mid-1800s.

Sept. 28

— Nicolae Corneanu, 90, a Romanian Orthodox bishop who was the first senior cleric to acknowledge collaborating with the feared Securitatae communist secret police, in Bucharest.

Sept. 30

— Geraldine “Jerrie” Mock, 88, who became the first female to fly solo around the world in 1964, in Florida.

— Martin Pearl, 87, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Stanford University who discovered a sub-atomic particle known as the tau lepton, in Palo Alto, California.

OCTOBER

Oct. 1

— Schlomo Lahat, 87, a former Tel Aviv mayor who presided over the city’s transformation into a vibrant and open urban center, in Tel Aviv. He had Alzheimer’s disease.

Oct. 3

— Coimer Cottrell, 82, a black hair-care entrepreneur who made millions with a cheap kit that brought the celebrity Jheri curl into average African-American homes, in Texas.

Oct. 4

— Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, who presided over what was largely acknowledged as a corrupt and brutal regime as self-proclaimed “president for life” of Haiti until a popular uprising sent him into a 25-year exile, in Port-au-Prince of a heart attack.

— Paul Revere, 76 the organist and leader of the Raiders rock band who was known as “the madman of rock and roll” for his colonial wardrobe and infectious onstage persona, in Garden Vallley, Idaho. He had cancer.

Oct. 5

— Yuri Lyubimov, 97, a Soviet and Russian actor and director who founded Moscow’s famed Taganka Theater that he led for more than four decades, in Moscow.

— Jeffrey Holder, 84, an award-winning director, actor, painter, dancer and choreographer who led the ground-breaking show “The Wiz” and played a scary villain in a James Bond film, in New York of complications from pneumonia.

Oct. 6

— Marian Seldes, 86, an award-winning actress who taught Kevin Kline and Robin Williams, a muse to playwright Edward Albee and a Guinness Book of Records holder for most consecutive performances, in New York.

Oct. 7

— Siegfried Lenz, 88, a German author whose works frequently addressed the moral quandaries faced by ordinary people, in Hamburg.

Oct. 9

— Carolyn Kizer, 89, a prize-winning Pacific Northwest poet whose works reflected her feminism, in Sonoma, California, of the effects of dementia.

— Jan Hooks, 57, actress and former “Saturday Night Live” cast member.

Oct. 11

— Pavel Landovsky, 78, a Czech actor, anti-communist dissident and a friend to the late president and playwright Vaclav Havel, in Prague of a heart attack.

Oct. 14

— Elizabeth Pena, 55, a versatile Cuban-American actress who shifted between dramatic roles in such films as “Lone Star” and comedic parts on television, in Los Angles.

Oct. 16

— John Spencer Churchill, 88, the 11th Duke of Marlborough and a cousin and godson of British wartime leader Winston Churchill, in Woodstock, England.

Oct. 18

— Paul Craft, 76, a Nashville songwriter and member of the country Hall of Fame, in Nashville.

— Tim Hauser, 72, the founder and lead singer of the award-winning vocal group The Manhattan Transfer, in New York of cardiac arrest.

Oct. 20

— Oscar de la Renta, 82, a designer who dressed first ladies, socialites and Hollywood stars for more than four decades in Kent, Connecticut.

— Rene Burri, 81, a Swiss photographer best known for his black and white portraits of Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara and painter Pablo Picasso, in Zurich of cancer.

Oct. 21

— Ben Bradlee, 93, the editor who guided The Washington Post’s prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades, in Washington.

— Gough Whitlam, 98, a former Australian prime minister whose government was credited with instituting lasting social reforms during a short tenure that ended in a bitter constitutional crisis, in Sydney.

— Joan Quigley, 87, an astrologer who helped determine President Ronald Reagan’s schedule.

Oct. 23

— Ghulam Azam, 91, a former Bangladeshi Islamist party leader whose imprisonment on war crime charges triggered violent protests last year, in a Dhaka prison hospital of a heart attack.

Oct. 24

— Marcia Strassman, 66, an actress who stared on Broadway, in movies such as “Honey I Shrank the Kids” and on television, in Sherman Oaks, California. She had breast cancer.

Oct. 25

— Jack Bruce, British musician best known as the bass player and vocalist of the 1960s power blues trio Cream, in London of liver disease.

Oct. 28

— Michael Sata, 77, a longtime opposition leader who was finally elected president of Zambia in 2011, in London.

— Galway Kinnell, a prize-winning poet known for connecting the experiences of daily life with larger forces, in Vermont. He had leukemia.

Oct. 30

— Thomas Menino, 71, Boston’s longest-serving mayor whose mumbling and occasional bumbling belied his political ingenuity and endeared him to a city whose skyline he helped reshape, of cancer.

NOVEMBER

Nov. 1

— Wayne Static, 48, the front man for the metal band Static-X.

Nov. 2

— Acker Bilk, 85, an English clarinet player who beat the Beatles and other British rockers to the top of the U.S. music charts with the instrumental “Stranger on the Shore,” in Bath, England.

— Veljo Kadijevic, 88, a former Yugoslav general who was accused of war crimes in Croatia and who fled to Russia to avoid testifying at a U.N. tribunal, in Moscow.

Nov. 3

— Tom Magliozzi, 77, one half of the brother duo who hosted National Public Radio’s popular “Car Talk,” where they bantered with callers and commiserated over the car problems, near Boston, of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Nov. 4

— S. Donald Stookey, 99, who invented CorningWare, the durable, heat-resistant ceramic glass used in cookware by millions and in missile nose cones by the military, in Rochester, New York.

Nov. 5

— Manitas de Plata, 94, a Flamenco guitarist who sold nearly 10 million records worldwide and broke boundaries for Gypsy musicians, in Montpellier, France.

Nov. 9

Raymond Almiran Montgomery, 78. Author of the popular children’s book series “Choose Your Own Adventure.”

Nov. 10

— Ken Takakura, 84, a craggy-faced, quiet star known for playing outlaws and stoic heroes in scores of Japanese films, in Tokyo of lymphoma.

— Toimas Young 34, a wounded Iraq war veteran who was an outspoken critic of the conflict and the subject of a 2007 documentary “Body of War,” in Seattle.

Nov. 11

— John Doar, 92, who as a top U.S. Justice Department civil rights lawyer fought to protect the rights of black voters and worked against segregation in the South, in New York of congestive heart failure.

— Big Hank Hank, 57, a member of the pioneering group The Sugarhill Gang responsible for one of the most popular rap songs of all time, “Rapper’s Delight,” in Englewood, New Jersey, of complications from cancer.

— Carol Ann Susi, 62, a character actress best known as the unseen Mrs. Wolowitz on “The Big Bang Theory,” an American television sitcom, in Los Angeles. She had cancer.

Nov. 13

— Kakha Bendukidze, 58, author of liberal reforms that overhauled Georgia’s post-Soviet economy, in London where he had been recovering from heart surgery.

— Alexander Grothendiech, 86, an opinionated and reclusive giant of 20th-century mathematics who shunned accolades and supported pacifist and environmentalist causes, in Saint Girons, France.

Nov. 15

— Mary Alison Glen-Haig, 96, one of the first women to become a member of the International Olympic Committee. Glen-Haig competed in fencing events for Britain at four Olympics from 1948 to 1960.

Nov. 16

— Jadwiga Pilsudska-Jaraczewska, 94, a World War II pilot and daughter of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, father of Polish independence, near Warsaw.

Nov. 17

— John T. Downey, 84, a former CIA agent who survived more than 20 years in a Chinese prison before becoming a U.S. judge, in Hartford, Connecticut, of cancer.

— Jimmy Ruffin, 78, the Motown singer whose hits included “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,” in Las Vegas.

Nov. 19

— Mike Nichols, 84, the director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such film, TV and stage his as “The Graduate,” Angels in America” and “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” in New York of cardiac arrest.

— Maria del Rosario Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart y Silva, the Dutchess of Alba, 88, one of Spain’s wealthiest and most colorful aristocrats and recognized as the world’s most titled noble, in Seville of pneumonia.

Nov. 23

— Marion Barry, 78, a former Washington mayor whose four terms were overshadowed by his 1980 arrest after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine, in Washington. He had been battling kidney problems stemming from diabetes and high blood pressure.

— Pat Quinn, 71, former NHL player and longtime coach and executive. Quinn guided Canada to the championship at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the country’s first gold medal in men’s hockey in 50 years.

— Dorothy “Dodo” Cheney, 98, who in 1938 became the first American woman to win the tennis tournament now known as the Australian Open.

Nov. 24

— Viktor Tikhonov, 84, the Soviet hockey coach whose teams won three Olympic gold medals but fell to the United States in the 1980 “Miracle on Ice.”

Nov. 25

— Denham Harman, 98, a renowned scientist who developed a prominent theory on aging that is now widely used to study cancer, of Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses, in Omaha, Nebraska.

Nov. 26

— Sabah, 87, a Lebanese singer and entertainer beloved for her powerful voice and brazen in the conservative Arab world for her many marriages, in Beirut.

Nov. 27

— P.D. James, 94, a mystery writer who brought realistic, modern characters to the classic British detective story, in Oxford, England.

— Frank Yablans, 79, a former president of Paramount Pictures who presided over the release of several groundbreaking pictures such as “The Godfather,” in Los Angeles of natural causes.

— Jack Kyle, 88, who led Ireland to prominence in the 1940s and ’50s as one of rugby’s greatest players.

— Phillip Hughes, 25, Australian cricketer died from a “catastrophic” injury to his head, two days after being struck by a delivery during a match.

Nov. 28

— Roberto Gomez Bolanos, 85, a famous Mexican comedian known as “Chespirito” who wrote and played the boy television character “El Chavo del Ocho” that defined a generation for millions of Latin American children, in Cancun, Mexico.

— Saeed Akl, 102, Lebanon’s leading poet whose fame spread throughout the Arab world, in Beirut.

Nov. 30

— Mark Strand, a former U.S. poet laureate known for his elegiac verse that was translated into 30 languages, in New York of liposarcoma.

— Radwa Ashour, 68, an acclaimed Egyptian writer and educator who often used her deeply personal writing style to champion human rights issues, in Cairo. She had cancer.

— Anthony Marshall, 90, a decorated World War II veteran, diplomat and Broadway producer who saw his aristocratic life unravel as he was convicted in 1990 of raiding the fortune of his socialite mother Brooke Astor, in New York. He had heart and other health problems for years.

— South African conservationist Ian Player, 87, the brother of golfer Gary Player and a key figure in building the region’s rhino population from a perilously small number half a century ago.

DECEMBER

Dec. 1

— Kosta Karageorge, 22, Ohio State wrestler and American football player who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, days after disappearing amid complaints about concussions he suffered.

Dec. 2

— Bobby Keys, 70, a saxophonist and life-long rock ‘n’ roller who toured with Buddy Holly, played on recordings with John Lennon and laid down one of the all-time blowout solos on the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar,” in Tennessee.

— Jean Beliveau, 83, winner of 10 Stanley Cups with the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens and one of the most revered figures in hockey.

Dec. 3

— Herman Badillo, 85. New York City politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman.

Dec. 4

— Jeremy Thorpe, 85, an influential British politician who helped revive the Liberal Party before his career was cut short by scandal, in London. He had Parkinson’s disease for 30 years.

— Bob Montgomery a songwriter and record producer who wrote his for pop and country artists from Buddy Holly to Eddy Arnold, in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. He had Parkinson’s disease.

Dec. 5

— Queen Fabiola, 86, who was inseparable from her husband, the late King Baudouin, and popular across much of Belgium, in Brussels.

— Ernest Brace, 83, a civilian who was captured during the Vietnam War flying supplies for the CIA and who later tapped code through a wall to fellow prisoner John McCain, in Oregon, of a pulmonary embolism.

Dec. 6

— Ralph Baer, 92, a video game pioneer who created both the precursor to Pong and the electric memory game Simon and led the team that developed the first home video game console, in New Hampshire.

Dec. 7

— Nikolai Vasenin, 95, a Russian who fought with the French Resistance during World War II, in Berezovsky, Russia.

Dec. 9

— Mary Ann Mobley Collins, 77, a former Miss America who appeared in films with Elvis Presley and later made documentary films around the world, in Beverly Hills, California. She had been battling breast cancer.

— Karl Otto Pohl, 85, a German economist and anti-inflation hawk who led the Bundesbank from 1980 to 1991.

Dec. 10

— Ralph Giordano, 91, a German writer and Holocaust survivor who spoke out against anti-Semitism and the far right and later became a prominent critic of Germany’s failure to integrate Muslim immigrants, in Cologne.

— Larry J. Cano, 90, the founder of the El Torito restaurant chain who helped popularize Mexican food in the United States, in Corona del Mar, California.

Dec. 11

— Michel du Cille, 58, a photojournalist who won America’s Pulitzer Prize three times and who recently captured compelling images of Ebola patients and their caretakers, in Liberia, of an apparent heart attack.

Dec. 12

— Norman Bridwell, 86, a soft-spoken illustrator whose impromptu stories about a girl and her puppy marked the unlikely birth of the supersize franchise Clifford the Red Dog, in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. He had been hospitalized after a fall and had several illnesses including prostate cancer.

Dec. 13

— Phil Stern, 95, an award-winning photographer who lugged his camera into combat during World War II and later became known for his candid shots of Hollywood stars, in Los Angeles. No cause of death was given, but he had emphysema.

Dec. 14

— Sy Berger, 91, the father of the modern baseball trading card who designed the famed Topps versions in the 1950s.

Dec. 15

— David Garth, 84, a powerful political adviser who spearheaded the creation of the modern political television commercial and helped elect governors, senators and mayors, in New York after a long, unspecified illness.

Dec. 17

— Richard C. Hottelet, 97, the last of the original “Murrow’s Boys,” the pioneering group of wartime journalists hired by CBS Radio newsman Edward R. Murrow, and who later was the network’s U.N. correspondent for 25 years, in Wilton, Connecticut.

— Dieter E. Grau, 101, a member of the German rocket team that helped build America’s space program, in Huntsville, Alabama.

Dec. 19

— Ernie Terrell, 75, the former heavyweight boxing champion who defended his crown twice before suffering a punishing loss to Muhammad Ali in a 1967 grudge match.

Dec. 18

— Mandy Rice-Davies, 70, a key figure in the “Profumo Scandal” that rocked Cold War Britain, in London. She had cancer.

Dec. 21

— Udo Juergens, 80, an Austrian-born star who dominated pop music in the German-speaking world and sold more than 100 million records in a career that spanned five decades, in Gottlieban, Switzerland, of apparent heart failure.

— Billie Whitelaw, 82, a British actress who collaborated closely with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett and appeared on stage and screen for decades, in London.

Dec. 22

— Joe Cocker, 70, the raspy-voiced British singer known for his frenzied cover of “With a Little Help From My Friends,” the teary ballad “You Are So Beautiful” and a contorted performing style that lent itself to parody, in Colorado, of lung cancer.

— Fritz Sdunek, 67, a former Olympic boxing trainer in East Germany who coached Vitali Klitschko to a string of heavyweight titles and also trained his brother Wladimir Klitschko.

Dec. 23

—C. Conrad Johnson, 110, the Swedish immigrant who was oldest man in the U.S. when he died in Illinois.

Dec. 24

— Robert “Showboat” Hall, 87, a former star of the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team who played more than 5,000 games in nearly 90 countries over a 26-year career, in Detroit, of cancer.

— Leonard Beerman, 93, an American Reform rabbi who founded Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles and was known for defending Palestinian rights and supporting a two-state solution, in Los Angeles, of congestive heart failure.

— Jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco, 91, who led the way on his instrument in the transition between the swing and bebop eras, in Panama City.

Dec. 26

— Stanislaw Baranczak, 68, Poland’s outstanding poet, translator and dissident and a former Harvard lecturer.

Dec. 27

— Ben Ammi Ben Israel, 75, spiritual leader of the African Hebrew Israelites, a movement that believes some black Americans are the descendants of an ancient Israelite tribe, in Dimona, the southern Israeli town where he brought his followers four decades ago.

Dec. 30

— Luise Rainer, German born star of cinema’s golden era who won back-to-back Oscars but then walked away from a glittering Hollywood career, has died. She was 104.

Dec. 31

— Edward Herrmann, 71, the star of TV’s “Gilmore Girls” star and Tony Award-winner who made his mark on stage, on screen and as the narrator of a number of documentaries.

— Melvin Jackson, 79, the blues musician who played trumpet and saxophone with legends B.B. King and Bobby “Blue” Bland, traveling to more than 90 countries.

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