Yahoo! News: Obituaries Copyright (c) 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/top-stories/obituaries topstories Obituaries en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:22:45 GMT 5 Yahoo! News 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/top-stories/obituaries http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif Pa. Dem Murtha remembered as military advocate (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_murtha ap/20100209/us_obit_murtha AP us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:22:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_murtha"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3615085948ea4238a6e4c0f1d2c3f3dd.obit_murtha_wx105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=5.XxisUsbayGsTPOJv_zyg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006, file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Rep. John Murtha, who said the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq was based on "flawed policy wrapped in illusion" and called for a withdrawal of U.S. troops there, is being remembered as an advocate on Capitol Hill for those serving in military uniform.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100209/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_murtha"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100208/capt.3615085948ea4238a6e4c0f1d2c3f3dd.obit_murtha_wx105.jpg?x=130&y=89&q=85&sig=5.XxisUsbayGsTPOJv_zyg--" align="left" height="89" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2006, file photo, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Murtha, an influential critic of the Iraq War whose congressional career was shadowed by questions about his ethics, died Monday. He was 77. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) Celebrity photographer Felice Quinto dies at 80 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_paparazzi_king ap/20100208/us_obit_paparazzi_king AP us Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:37:31 GMT AP - Felice Quinto, a renowned celebrity photographer and the likely model for the character Paparazzo in Federico Fellini's 1960 film "La Dolce Vita," has died. He was 80. British comic actor Ian Carmichael dies at 89 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_carmichael ap/20100208/eu_britain_obit_carmichael AP entertainment Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:24:53 GMT AP - Ian Carmichael, a British comic actor who starred in "I'm All Right Jack" on the silver screen and played Bertie Wooster and Lord Peter Wimsey on TV, has died. He was 89. Poland's 1st post-communist foreign minister dies (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100208/ap_on_re_eu/eu_poland_obit_skubiszewski ap/20100208/eu_poland_obit_skubiszewski AP world Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:29:51 GMT AP - Poland's government says Krzysztof Skubiszewski, a legal expert who became Poland's first foreign minister after communism's collapse and helped the country chart a pro-Western course, has died. He was 83. Jazz musician Sir John Dankworth dies at 82 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_en_mu/eu_britain_obit_dankworth ap/20100207/eu_britain_obit_dankworth AP entertainment Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:00:24 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_en_mu/eu_britain_obit_dankworth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.50d386ff19b9406d91768d1abb1db40a.britain_dankworth_lon101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=UYn9MCOvrVPt4T_iAqdDog--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="FILE - Sir John Dankworth plays his saxophone at Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday, March 2, 2006, after receiving a knighthood from the Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. British bandleader, composer and jazz saxophonist Sir John Dankworth has died. He was 82. His wife, jazz vocalist Dame Cleo Laine, announced his death during a concert at the theater they founded on the grounds of their Buckinghamshire home, northwest of London. Dankworth died Saturday Feb. 6, 2010, in a London hospital after having been ill for several months. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons, Pool)" border="0" /></a>AP - Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100207/ap_en_mu/eu_britain_obit_dankworth"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100207/capt.50d386ff19b9406d91768d1abb1db40a.britain_dankworth_lon101.jpg?x=88&y=130&q=85&sig=UYn9MCOvrVPt4T_iAqdDog--" align="left" height="130" width="88" alt="photo" title="FILE - Sir John Dankworth plays his saxophone at Buckingham Palace, London, Thursday, March 2, 2006, after receiving a knighthood from the Britain's Queen Elizabeth II. British bandleader, composer and jazz saxophonist Sir John Dankworth has died. He was 82. His wife, jazz vocalist Dame Cleo Laine, announced his death during a concert at the theater they founded on the grounds of their Buckinghamshire home, northwest of London. Dankworth died Saturday Feb. 6, 2010, in a London hospital after having been ill for several months. (AP Photo/Andrew Parsons, Pool)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) Former Hawaii Congressman Heftel dies at 85 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_heftel ap/20100206/us_obit_heftel AP us Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:25:40 GMT AP - Former Democratic Congressman Cec Heftel of Hawaii has died. 'Visionary' ex-Miss. Choctaw chief Martin dies (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_martin ap/20100205/us_obit_martin AP us Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:21:45 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_martin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100205/capt.7a8f9e9791f6429c91ec5320d9f78c03.obit_martin_msnes601.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=3pSyMwtuGPa9XBJCZK.uNQ--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2005 file photo, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) Chief Phillip Martin, answers questions from reporters after a press conference at the Mississippi State Capitol Building in Jackson, Miss. Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, died Thursday night, Feb. 4, 2010 at a Jackson, Miss. hospital with his family by his side after suffering a massive stroke a few days earlier, said his niece, Natasha Phillips. He was 83. (AP Photo/The Neshoba Democrat, Kyle Carter, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100205/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_martin"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100205/capt.7a8f9e9791f6429c91ec5320d9f78c03.obit_martin_msnes601.jpg?x=83&y=130&q=85&sig=3pSyMwtuGPa9XBJCZK.uNQ--" align="left" height="130" width="83" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2005 file photo, Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians (MBCI) Chief Phillip Martin, answers questions from reporters after a press conference at the Mississippi State Capitol Building in Jackson, Miss. Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, died Thursday night, Feb. 4, 2010 at a Jackson, Miss. hospital with his family by his side after suffering a massive stroke a few days earlier, said his niece, Natasha Phillips. He was 83. (AP Photo/The Neshoba Democrat, Kyle Carter, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) `Days of Our Lives' star Frances Reid dies at 95 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_en_ot/us_obit_frances_reid ap/20100204/us_obit_frances_reid AP entertainment Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:01:16 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_en_ot/us_obit_frances_reid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100204/capt.d3970b1fb5084bbb926c084e81ad46be.tv_frances_reid_nyet720.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=8Ex1sVv3N5bN__thgLb.yQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="In this undated image released by NBC, actress Frances Reid, from the NBC daytime drama, 'Days of our Lives,' is shown. Reid, 95, who played matriarch Alice Horton on NBC's 'Days of Our Lives' for four decades, died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Los Angeles, the network says. (AP Photo/NBC)" border="0" /></a>AP - NBC says Frances Reid, who played matriarch Alice Horton on "Days of Our Lives" for four decades, has died in Los Angeles. She was 95.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_en_ot/us_obit_frances_reid"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100204/capt.d3970b1fb5084bbb926c084e81ad46be.tv_frances_reid_nyet720.jpg?x=100&y=130&q=85&sig=8Ex1sVv3N5bN__thgLb.yQ--" align="left" height="130" width="100" alt="photo" title="In this undated image released by NBC, actress Frances Reid, from the NBC daytime drama, 'Days of our Lives,' is shown. Reid, 95, who played matriarch Alice Horton on NBC's 'Days of Our Lives' for four decades, died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010, in Los Angeles, the network says. (AP Photo/NBC)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) Former Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi dies at 89 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_fasi ap/20100204/us_obit_fasi AP us Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:27:16 GMT AP - Frank Fasi, who served as Honolulu mayor for 22 years and ran unsuccessfully for Hawaii governor five times, has died at home. He was 89. Philanthropist Evelyn Haas dies at age 92 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_evelyn_haas ap/20100204/us_obit_evelyn_haas AP entertainment Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:14:52 GMT AP - Evelyn Haas, a prominent philanthropist and widow of Levi Strauss & Co. CEO Walter Haas Jr., has died. She was 92. Jamaican scholar, choreographer dies in US at 76 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_en_ot/cb_jamaica_obit_nettleford ap/20100203/cb_jamaica_obit_nettleford AP entertainment Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:51:02 GMT AP - Jamaican scholar and choreographer Rex Nettleford has died following a heart attack in the United States. He was 76. Yugoslav partisan who saved Jews in Holocaust dies (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_obit_vranetic ap/20100203/ml_israel_obit_vranetic AP world Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:54:57 GMT AP - Ivan Vranetic, a Yugoslav partisan who saved Jews during the Holocaust and went on to head the organization that honors non-Jews who saved Jews from the Nazis, has died in Israel. He was 84. Former `Boston Legal' actor dies in Wis. SUV crash (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_en_tv/us_actor_fatal_crash ap/20100202/us_actor_fatal_crash AP entertainment Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:32:39 GMT AP - An actor who appeared on the TV show "Boston Legal" has been killed in an SUV crash in Wisconsin. Correction: Former Tuskegee Airman obituary (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_tuskegee_airman_corrective ap/20100202/us_obit_tuskegee_airman_corrective AP us Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:28:48 GMT AP - In a Jan. 28 obituary for retired Air Force Lt. Col. Lee A. Archer, a Tuskegee Airman, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Air Force had designated Archer an ace for shooting down five enemy planes in World War II. The Air Force Historical Research Agency says Archer officially shot down four enemy planes, and researchers have not confirmed a fifth to be designated an ace. 'Andy Griffith' producer Aaron Ruben dies at 95 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_on_en_tv/us_obit_aaron_ruben ap/20100202/us_obit_aaron_ruben AP entertainment Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:54:34 GMT AP - Aaron Ruben, who produced such TV hits as "The Andy Griffith Show," "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C." and "Sanford and Son," has died. He was 95. Daughter of artist Diego Rivera dies in England (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_en_ot/eu_britain_obit_rivera ap/20100202/eu_britain_obit_rivera AP entertainment Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:51:45 GMT AP - Marika Rivera, a daughter of the Mexican artist Diego Rivera, has died in England, her son said Tuesday. She was 90. David Brown, Oscar-nominated producer, dies in NY (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_en_ot/us_obit_brown ap/20100202/us_obit_brown AP entertainment Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:10:01 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_en_ot/us_obit_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.ace2aedc88284586bda051a2f033672f.obit_brown_ny120.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=8CyFHjqro5JnH894ym64pg--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="FILE - In this May 11, 1974 file photo, film producer David Brown, second from right, Helen Gurley-Brown, right, arrive at an event at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. Film and theater producer David Brown died Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 at his Manhattan home. He was 93.(AP Photo/Levy, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - David Brown, a film and theater producer who helped bring to the screen two of the 1970s' biggest hits, "Jaws" and "The Sting," has died. He was 93.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100202/ap_en_ot/us_obit_brown"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100202/capt.ace2aedc88284586bda051a2f033672f.obit_brown_ny120.jpg?x=105&y=130&q=85&sig=8CyFHjqro5JnH894ym64pg--" align="left" height="130" width="105" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 11, 1974 file photo, film producer David Brown, second from right, Helen Gurley-Brown, right, arrive at an event at the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France. Film and theater producer David Brown died Monday, Feb. 1, 2010 at his Manhattan home. He was 93.(AP Photo/Levy, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) Yiddish poet Abraham Sutzkever, 96, dies in Israel (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_obit_sutzkever ap/20100201/ml_israel_obit_sutzkever AP world Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:29 GMT AP - Abraham Sutzkever, a Yiddish poet and partisan fighter during World War II, has died in Tel Aviv. He was 96, his daughter Mira said. Argentine author Martinez dies at age 75 (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_obit_martinez ap/20100201/lt_argentina_obit_martinez AP world Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:51:59 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_obit_martinez"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100201/capt.3d80ea27a6f041929accb5273bf1d03a.obit_tomas_eloy_martinez_xlat107.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=YA9OFBBCfUA.WcpDJWy1jA--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="In this file photo, Tomas Eloy Martinez speaks during the 63rd Inter American Press Association meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, Sunday, March 18, 2007. Martinez died of cancer on Jan. 31st, at the age of 75. (AP Photo/ William Fernando Martinez, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Tomas Eloy Martinez, an Argentine author and journalist famed for his writings about former President Juan Domingo Peron and his glamorous wife Eva, died Sunday. He was 75.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100201/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_argentina_obit_martinez"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100201/capt.3d80ea27a6f041929accb5273bf1d03a.obit_tomas_eloy_martinez_xlat107.jpg?x=96&y=130&q=85&sig=YA9OFBBCfUA.WcpDJWy1jA--" align="left" height="130" width="96" alt="photo" title="In this file photo, Tomas Eloy Martinez speaks during the 63rd Inter American Press Association meeting in Cartagena, Colombia, Sunday, March 18, 2007. Martinez died of cancer on Jan. 31st, at the age of 75. (AP Photo/ William Fernando Martinez, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) UK diplomat Percy Cradock, China specialist, dies (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_obit_cradock ap/20100129/eu_britain_obit_cradock AP world Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:37:31 GMT AP - Sir Percy Cradock, the British diplomat who negotiated the terms for returning Hong Kong to Chinese rule, has died at 86.