Copyright (c) 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. http://news.yahoo.com/i/2279 topstories Obituaries en-us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:18:03 GMT 5 142 18 http://news.yahoo.com/i/2279 http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142b.gif http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_on_re_us/us_deaths ap/20091107/us_deaths AP us Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:18:03 GMT AP - Donald Baim http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_en_ot/us_obit_hollywood_negotiator ap/20091107/us_obit_hollywood_negotiator AP entertainment Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:30:37 GMT AP - Nick Counter, a longtime negotiator for Hollywood producers who led the studios through two grueling writers' strikes last year and in 1988, has died. He was 69. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091107/ap_en_mu/us_obit_d_lugoff ap/20091107/us_obit_d_lugoff AP entertainment Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:23:37 GMT AP - Art D'Lugoff (Duh-LOO'-guhf), who owned the famed Village Gate nightclub in New York City, has died. He was 85. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_panama_obit_solis ap/20091106/lt_panama_obit_solis AP world Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:26:45 GMT AP - Manuel Solis, who served briefly as president during Manuel Noriega's military regime, died Friday. He was 91. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon ap/20091106/us_book_review_loot_the_moon AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:15:44 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.5ed0962e6e2f47d2a7fbdd818ca91ce7.book_review_loot_the_moon_nyet888.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=9JNQ6SJPPs2rCnT8Us3oMg--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the Moon,' by Mark Arsenault, is shown. (AP Photo/Minotaur Books)" border="0" /></a>AP - "Loot the Moon" (Minotaur), 276 pages, $24.99, by Mark Arsenault: Billy Povich, former investigative reporter, has been reassigned to write obituaries &mdash; his newspaper's way of encouraging him to quit.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_en_ot/us_book_review_loot_the_moon"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091106/capt.5ed0962e6e2f47d2a7fbdd818ca91ce7.book_review_loot_the_moon_nyet888.jpg?x=85&y=130&q=85&sig=9JNQ6SJPPs2rCnT8Us3oMg--" align="left" height="130" width="85" alt="photo" title="In this book cover image released by Minotaur Books, 'Loot the Moon,' by Mark Arsenault, is shown. (AP Photo/Minotaur Books)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_en_ot/eu_czech_obit_krejca ap/20091106/eu_czech_obit_krejca AP entertainment Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:08:58 GMT AP - Otomar Krejca, a renowned theater director in the Czech Republic, has died at the age of 87. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_en_ot/box_obit_lou_filippo ap/20091105/box_obit_lou_filippo AP entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:13:32 GMT AP - Lou Filippo, a World Boxing Hall of Famer who judged 85 world champion fights and had small roles in the "Rocky" movies, has died. He was 83. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_en_ot/us_obit_sheldon_dorf ap/20091105/us_obit_sheldon_dorf AP entertainment Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:02:00 GMT AP - Sheldon Dorf, who founded the world famous Comic-Con International comic book convention, has died. He was 76. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obit_france_levi_strauss ap/20091104/eu_obit_france_levi_strauss AP world Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:49:27 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obit_france_levi_strauss"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.ca793f7ffd044f2a8b5978f7956926f4.france_obit_claude_levi_strauss_lon810.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=L5jbdQHPTx1VpIl6P_vSIA--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="File- Claude Levi-Strauss seen in this Jan. 13, 1967 file photo. The Academie Francaise said Tuesday Nov 3 2009 that Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, had died. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.(AP Photo, HO)" border="0" /></a>AP - After weeks crossing the high seas, Claude Levi-Strauss breathed in his first lungful of the New World, a perfume tinged with pepper or tobacco. The sensory awakening was the start of a journey that turned a young Parisian scholar into a founder of modern anthropology.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091104/ap_on_re_eu/eu_obit_france_levi_strauss"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.ca793f7ffd044f2a8b5978f7956926f4.france_obit_claude_levi_strauss_lon810.jpg?x=102&y=130&q=85&sig=L5jbdQHPTx1VpIl6P_vSIA--" align="left" height="130" width="102" alt="photo" title="File- Claude Levi-Strauss seen in this Jan. 13, 1967 file photo. The Academie Francaise said Tuesday Nov 3 2009 that Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, had died. He was 100. Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.(AP Photo, HO)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_buried_wings_pilot ap/20091103/us_obit_buried_wings_pilot AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:26:16 GMT AP - Bernerd Harding, a World War II pilot from New Hampshire who went on a quest to find his buried pilot's wings in Germany 65 years after his B-24 bomber was shot down, died Tuesday at age 90. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_obit_ayala ap/20091103/eu_spain_obit_ayala AP world Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:16:57 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_obit_ayala"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.a9a8bade8f714c5382df2dcff62fb014.spain_obit_ayala__pw109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Gqe2FGYeWNCHDnQklwgceA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="FILE - Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, seen in this March 9, 2006 file photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Madrid has died. Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died at his home in Madrid, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. He was 103. Ayala won many prestige prizes in Spanish letters, from the Cervantes award in 1991 to the Prince of Asturias in 1998.The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 forced him into exile and he worked and lived in Argentina and the United States before returning to Spain. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa del Olza, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Francisco Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died Tuesday at age 103 after outliving the dictatorship that led him to flee into exile.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_eu/eu_spain_obit_ayala"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091103/capt.a9a8bade8f714c5382df2dcff62fb014.spain_obit_ayala__pw109.jpg?x=130&y=88&q=85&sig=Gqe2FGYeWNCHDnQklwgceA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - Spanish intellectual Francisco Ayala, seen in this March 9, 2006 file photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Madrid has died. Ayala, a novelist, sociologist and one of Spain's leading scholars, died at his home in Madrid, Tuesday Nov. 3, 2009. He was 103. Ayala won many prestige prizes in Spanish letters, from the Cervantes award in 1991 to the Prince of Asturias in 1998.The Spanish Civil War of 1936-39 forced him into exile and he worked and lived in Argentina and the United States before returning to Spain. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa del Olza, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091103/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_rines ap/20091103/us_obit_rines AP us Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:51:05 GMT AP - Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died. He was 87. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091031/ap_on_re_as/as_skorea_obit_ex_spy_chief ap/20091031/as_skorea_obit_ex_spy_chief AP world Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:22:43 GMT AP - Former South Korean spy chief Lee Hu-rak, who brokered the signing of a historic 1972 peace document with North Korea following a secret trip to Pyongyang, died Saturday. He was 85. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091031/ap_en_ot/us_obit_michelle_triola_marvin ap/20091031/us_obit_michelle_triola_marvin AP entertainment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:28:25 GMT AP - Michelle Triola Marvin whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, "Dirty Dozen" actor Lee Marvin, placed the word "palimony" into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, died Friday at age 76. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091030/ap_en_ot/us_obit_cage_s_father ap/20091030/us_obit_cage_s_father AP entertainment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:46:21 GMT AP - Nicolas Cage's father, literature professor August Coppola, has died. He was 75. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_o_quinn ap/20091029/us_obit_o_quinn AP us Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:45:32 GMT AP - Flamboyant lawyer John O'Quinn, who won billions in verdicts against makers of breast implants, pharmaceuticals and tobacco products, died Thursday in a traffic wreck. He was 68. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/us_obit_kenley ap/20091029/us_obit_kenley AP entertainment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:04:10 GMT AP - John Kenley, a theater producer who ran a legendary summer stock circuit in Ohio beginning in the 1950s that attracted numerous Broadway and Hollywood stars, has died, a family friend said Thursday. He was 103. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_decarava ap/20091029/us_obit_decarava AP entertainment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:55:33 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_decarava"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.5bb1bea550ee45abab7aa1371b3d995f.obit_decarava_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mKz7eLzijt2LAfE8ioK2yA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 6, 1991 file photo, photographer Roy DeCarava, poses at his Brooklyn home in New York. DeCarava whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, died Tuesday Oct. 28, 2009. He was 89. (AP Photo/Martin Cabrera, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_en_ot/us_obit_decarava"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.5bb1bea550ee45abab7aa1371b3d995f.obit_decarava_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mKz7eLzijt2LAfE8ioK2yA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 6, 1991 file photo, photographer Roy DeCarava, poses at his Brooklyn home in New York. DeCarava whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, died Tuesday Oct. 28, 2009. He was 89. (AP Photo/Martin Cabrera, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/ny_obit_decarava ap/20091029/ny_obit_decarava AP entertainment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:26 GMT <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/ny_obit_decarava"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.5bb1bea550ee45abab7aa1371b3d995f.obit_decarava_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mKz7eLzijt2LAfE8ioK2yA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="FILE - In this May 6, 1991 file photo, photographer Roy DeCarava, poses at his Brooklyn home in New York. DeCarava whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, died Tuesday Oct. 28, 2009. He was 89. (AP Photo/Martin Cabrera, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Roy DeCarava, a photographer whose black and white images captured Harlem's everyday life and the jazz greats who performed there, has died. He was 89.</p><br clear="all"/> <p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_en_ot/ny_obit_decarava"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20091029/capt.5bb1bea550ee45abab7aa1371b3d995f.obit_decarava_ny121.jpg?x=130&y=86&q=85&sig=mKz7eLzijt2LAfE8ioK2yA--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="photo" title="FILE - In this May 6, 1991 file photo, photographer Roy DeCarava, poses at his Brooklyn home in New York. DeCarava whose black-and-white images captured Harlem's everyday life and jazz greats who performed there, died Tuesday Oct. 28, 2009. He was 89. (AP Photo/Martin Cabrera, File)" border="0"/></a></p><br clear="all"/> (AP) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/obits/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_re_eu/eu_switzerland_obit_bergier ap/20091029/eu_switzerland_obit_bergier AP world Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:29:39 GMT AP - Swiss historian Jean-Francois Bergier, who led a highly critical probe of Switzerland's conduct during World War II, has died. He was 77.