AP - Evaristo Porras, a former high-flying Medellin cartel drug trafficker associated with Pablo Escobar in the 1980s, has died at age 62, reportedly in economic ruin.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:48:31 GMT]
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AP - David Kimche, the Israeli spy-turned-diplomat who played a key role in the Iran-Contra scandal that rocked President Ronald Reagan's administration, has died. He was 82.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:51:38 GMT]
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AP - Sir Kenneth Dover, a distinguished historian of Greek culture who gained wider fame by admitting his wish to kill a troublesome colleague, has died at 89.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:05:30 GMT]
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AP - Bruce J. Graham, the pioneering architect who designed the iconic Chicago skyscraper formerly named the Sears Tower, has died. He was 84.
[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:20:48 GMT]
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AP - Dr. Edgar Wayburn, a five-term Sierra Club president who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom for working to preserve vast tracts of U.S. wilderness, has died. He was 103.

[Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:27:41 GMT]
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AP - Mark Linkous, the singer-songwriter who released his music under the band name Sparklehorse, has died after shooting himself in the chest in Tennessee. He was 47.
[Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:36:24 GMT]
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AP - Richard Stapley, the actor who appeared alongside Elizabeth Taylor in "Little Women" and with Gene Kelly in "The Three Musketeers," has died. He was 86.
[Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:14:25 GMT]
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AP - Aaron Cohen, the former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center who helped create the space shuttle program, has died in College Station after a long fight with cancer. He was 79.
[Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:34:49 GMT]
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AP - Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style drama "The Legend of Boggy Creek" influenced the hit film "The Blair Witch Project" decades later, has died at age 71.
[Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:18:53 GMT]
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AP - A founder of Bossa Nova music has died in Brazil after fighting prostate cancer. He was 80.
[Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:01:37 GMT]
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AP - Vladislav Ardzinba, who led the breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia to de facto independence through a bloody war and ethnic cleansing, died on Thursday, his doctor said. He was 64.

[Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:49:04 GMT]
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AP - A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide.
[Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:16:57 GMT]
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AP - Michael Foot, a bookish intellectual and anti-nuclear campaigner who led Britain's Labour Party to a disastrous defeat in 1983, died Wednesday morning, officials said. He was 96.

[Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:03:44 GMT]
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AP - Winston Spencer Churchill, a former member of Parliament and grandson of Britain's wartime leader, died Tuesday, an associate said. He was 69.

[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:18:05 GMT]
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AP - Author Barry Hannah, whose fiction was laced with dark humor and populated by hard-drinking Southerners, died Monday at his home in Oxford, Miss. He was 67.

[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:04:36 GMT]
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AP - Bernard Coutaz, who founded the respected independent classical record label Harmonia Mundi and ran it for five decades, has died, his company said Monday. He was 87.
[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:53 GMT]
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AP - The last surviving child of Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata has died at 94.
[Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:17:46 GMT]
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AP - Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, who performed with scores of musicians but was best known as the longtime bass player for the band led by pop-rock stars Daryl Hall and John Oates, has died. He was 58.
[Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:24:04 GMT]
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AP - Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor died Sunday, his publisher said. He was 62.
[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:26:48 GMT]
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AP - David Bankier, a prominent Holocaust scholar and head of Yad Vashem's International Institute for Holocaust Research, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 63.
[Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:49:29 GMT]
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