Obituaries

ABAKANOWICZ, MAGDALENA (Marta Abakanowicz-Kosmowski; born 1930), Polish sculptor, in Warsaw, Poland, on April 20, 2017 (Vol. 25).

ABDELLAH, FAYE GLENN (born 1919), American nurse, in McLean, Virginia, on February 4, 2017 (Vol. 24).

APPELFELD, AHARON (born 1932), Israeli who wrote about anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, in Petah Tikva, Israel, on January 4, 2018 (Vol. 1).

AYLWIN, AZÓCAR, PATRICIO (born 1918), leader of the Chilean Christian Democratic party and president of Chile, in Providencia, Chile on April 19, 2016 (Vol. 1).

BANKS, DENNIS J. (born 1932), Native American leader, teacher, activist, and author, in Rochester, Minnesota, on October 29, 2017 (Vol. 1).

BAN UELOS, ROMANA ACOSTA (born 1925), Mexican businesswoman and American government official, in Redondo Beach, California, on January 15, 2018 (Vol. 24).

BERRY, CHUCK (born 1926), African American musician, in Wentzville, Missouri, on March 18, 2017 (Vol. 2).

BRESLIN, JIMMY (born c. 1930), American journalist, in Manhattan, New York, on March 19, 2017 (Vol. 33).

COSGRAVE, LIAM (born 1920), Irish foreign minister and prime minister, in Dublin, Ireland, on October 4, 2017 (Vol. 4).

DARRIEUX, DANIELLE (born 1917), French actress, in Bois-le-Roi, France, on October 17, 2017 (Vol. 34).

DOMINO, FATS (Antoine Domino, Jr.; born 1928), African American singer, pianist, and composer, in Harvey, Louisiana, on October 24, 2017 (Vol. 22).

DONLEAVY, JAMES PATRICK (born 1926), Irish author and playwright, in Mullingar, Ireland, on September 11, 2017 (Vol. 19).

ENRICO, ROGER (born 1944), American businessman, in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, on June 1, 2016 (Vol. 27).

GOYTISOLO, JUAN (born 1931), Spanish writer, in Marrakech, Morocco, on June 4, 2017 (Vol. 31).

GRAHAM, WILLIAM FRANKLIN, JR. (“Billy”; born 1918), American evangelist, in Montreat, North Carolina, on February 21, 2018 (Vol. 6).

GREGORY, DICK (Richard Claxton Gregory; born 1932), comedian and civil rights and world peace activist, in Washington, D.C., on August 19, 2017 (Vol. 6).

HALL, PETER REGINALD FREDERICK (born 1930), English theater director, in London, England, on September 11, 2017 (Vol. 24).

HAWKING, STEPHEN WILLIAM (born 1942), British physicist and mathematician, in Cambridge, England, on March 14, 2018 (Vol. 7).

HEFNER, HUGH (born 1926), founder and publisher of Playboy magazine, in Los Angeles, California, on September 27, 2017 (Vol. 7).

HOWE, GORDIE (born 1928), Canadian hockey player, in Sylvania, Ohio, on June 10, 2016 (Vol. 7).

ILITCH, MIKE (born 1929), American businessman, in Detroit, Michigan, on February 10, 2017 (Vol. 19).

JARREAU, AL (Alwin Lopez Jarreau; born 1940), African American musician, in Los Angeles, California, on February 12, 2017 (Vol. 26).

KARLE, ISABELLA (born 1921), American chemist and physicist, in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 3, 2017 (Vol. 8).

KAUFMAN, GERALD BERNARD (born 1930), foreign policy spokesman of the British Labour Party, in England, on February 26, 2017 (Vol. 8).

KOHL, HELMUT (born 1930), chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and first chancellor of a united Germany since World War II, in Ludwigshafen, Germany, on June 16, 2017 (Vol. 9).

LE GUIN, URSULA KROEBER (born 1929), American author, in Portland, Oregon, on January 22, 2018 (Vol. 18).

LEWIS, JERRY (born 1926), American comedian, in Las Vegas, Nevada, on August 20, 2017 (Vol. 30).

LIU XIAOBO (born 1955), Chinese activist, in Shenyang, China, on July 13, 2017 (Vol. 33).

MANDELA, WINNIE (Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela; born 1936), South African anti-apartheid leader, in Johannesburg, South Africa, on April 2, 2018 (Vol. 10).

MANSFIELD, PETER (born 1933), British physicist, in Nottingham, United Kingdom, on February 8, 2017 (Vol. 34).

MASIRE, QUETT KETUMILE (born 1925), a leader of the fight for independence and president of Botswana, in Gaborone, Botswana, on June 22, 2017 (Vol. 10).

MCCANDLESS, BRUCE (born 1937), American astronaut, in Conifer, California, on December 21, 2017 (Vol. 23).

MCGUINNESS, MARTIN (born 1950), Northern Irish activist and politician, in Derry, Northern Ireland, on March 21, 2017 (Vol. 33).

MILLET, KATE (born 1934), American feminist author and sculptor, in Paris, France, on September 6, 2017 (Vol. 11).

MIRZAKHANI, MARYAM (born 1977), Iranian mathematician, in Stanford, California, on July 14, 2017 (Vol. 36).

NORIEGA, MANUEL A. (born 1934), strongman of Panama (1980s) forced out in 1989 by the United States, in Panama City, Panama, on May 29, 2017 (Vol. 11).

RAFSANJANI, AKBAR HASHEMI (born 1934), president of Iran, in Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2017 (Vol. 13).

RAPOPORT, INGEBORG (born 1912), German medical researcher, in Berlin, Germany, on March 23, 2017 (Vol. 36).

ROCKEFELLER, DAVID (born 1915), chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, in Pocantico Hills, New York, on March 20, 2017 (Vol. 13).

SCHIESS, BETTY BONE (born 1923), American Episcopalian priest, in Cicero, New York, on October 20, 2017 (Vol. 18).

SHEPARD, SAM (Samuel Shepard Rogers VII; born 1943), American playwright, rock performer, and film actor, in Midway, Kentucky, on July 27, 2017 (Vol. 14).

SOARES, MÁRIO (Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares; born 1924), first socialist president of Portugal, in Lisbon, Portugal, on January 7, 2017 (Vol. 14).

STARZL, THOMAS (born 1926), American surgeon, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on March 4, 2017 (Vol. 21).

VON MEHREN, ROBERT BRANDT (born 1922), American lawyer who helped create the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on May 4, 2016 (Vol. 16).

WALCOTT, DEREK ALTON (born 1930), West Indian poet and dramatist, in Gros-Islet, Saint Lucia, on March 17, 2017 (Vol. 16).

WILBUR, RICHARD PURDY (born 1921), translator and poet laureate of the United States (1987-1988), in Belmont, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2017 (Vol. 16).

YEVTUSHENKO, YEVGENY ALEXANDROVICH (born 1933), Soviet poet, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 1, 2017 (Vol. 16).

(MLA 8th Edition)