Archive for October, 2007

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - John H. Baker Jr.

Former Rep. Hoagland dies at 65 (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - Peter Hoagland, a Nebraska Democrat who served three terms in Congress, has died after battling Parkinson’s disease. He was 65.

`Camelot' star Robert Goulet dies at 73 (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Singer Robert Goulet performs prior to the Boston Red Sox home opener in Boston in this April file photo. Goulet is in a Los Angeles hospital in critical condition awaiting a lung transplant, according to a notice put on his Web site.  (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Robert Goulet was in good spirits as he waited for a lung transplant, even telling doctors before they inserted a breathing tube, “Just watch my vocal cords,” his wife said.

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - Sam Dana

Founder of World Press Institute dies (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - American journalist Harry W. Morgan, who interviewed Mother Teresa, John F. Kennedy and Indira Gandhi and taught generations of journalists, died Tuesday. He was 73.

Khun Sa, ex-drug lord, guerrilla, dies (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Khun Sa, shown at this headquarters in Homong, Myanmar on November 22, 1995, has died according to a former secretary who now works with ethnic Shan minority guerilla groups.   The former drug lord was once one of the world's most wanted men and was also described as a liberation fighter.  At the height of his notoriety, Khun Sa presided over a narcotics kingdom in the jungle valleys of the Golden Triangle.  He died Friday Oct. 26, 2007, in Yangon.  (AP Photo/File)AP - Khun Sa, a drug lord once described by the U.S. government as the world’s largest producer of heroin, has died, an associate and a Myanmar official said Tuesday. He was 74.

'Chef Tell' Erhardt dies at 63 (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - Friedman Paul Erhardt, a German-born cook known as “Chef Tell” who was one of America’s pioneering television chefs, has died. He was 63.

Country star Porter Wagoner dies at 80 (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Porter Wagoner is shown at his home in Nashville, Tenn., on July 19, 2007. Wagoner, the rhinestone-clad Grand Ole Opry star who helped launch the career of Dolly Parton by hiring her as his duet partner, died Sunday, Oct. 28, 2007. He was 80. (AP Photo/Ed Rode)AP - Porter Wagoner was known for a string of country hits in the ’60s, perennial appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in his trademark rhinestone suits, and for launching the career of Dolly Parton.

Marie Curie's daughter, an author, dies (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - Eve Curie Labouisse, a journalist who wrote a best-selling biography of her mother, the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, has died. She was 102.

Czech composer Petr Eben dies at 78 (AP)

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

AP - Czech composer Petr Eben, whose wide variety of music has been performed around the globe, has died. He was 78.