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Year In Review A Roll Call Of Some Who Died In ‘15 BY BERNARD MCGHEE Force colonel who helped rescue insider stories about the country’s “When a Man Loves a Woman.” hundreds of orphans in the Korean leaders into a best-selling memoir. April 14. War and whose exploits prompted March 24. Robert Griffin, 91. Former a Hollywood film starring Rock Carlos Gaviria, 77. Former U.S. Republican senator whose Sometimes the act of dy- Hudson. March 2. Colombian presidential candi- withdrawal of support hastened ing, by itself, represents a type Jim Molyneaux, 94. Soft- date who became an icon of the President Richard Nixon’s resigna- of victory. spoken, cautious politician who led country’s democratic left while tion during the Watergate scandal. Such was the case for Rich- the Ulster Unionist Party through presiding over its constitutional April 16. ard “Dick” Walters, who was a some of Northern Ireland’s court. March 31. Cardinal Francis George, bloodiest years and early efforts at 78. Vigorous defender of Roman leader in the effort to get the peacemaking. March 9. APRIL: Catholic orthodoxy who played a state of Vermont to pass aid- Florence Arthaud, 57. First Cynthia Lennon, 75. First key role in the church’s response in-dying legislation. Diagnosed woman to win the prestigious wife of the late Beatles singer- to the clergy sex abuse scandal with lung cancer, Walters Route du Rhum transatlantic sonwriter-guitarist John Lennon. and led the U.S. bishops’ fight ultimately used the law to end sailing race. March 9. Helicopter April 1. Cancer against provisions of Obamacare. his own life in October at age crash. John Paul Hammerschmidt, April 17. 90, becoming one of the many Claude Sitton, 89. Journalist 92. Longtime Arkansas congress- A. Alfred Taubman, 91. notables who died in 2015. who set the pace for reporters man who defeated Bill Clinton in Self-made Michigan billionaire covering the civil rights movement the former president’s first race for whose philanthropy and business Among political figures in the South in the 1950s and ‘60s political office. April 1. success — including weaving were King Abdullah of Saudi ANNE CUSACK/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS) and later won a Pulitzer Prize for Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the enclosed shopping mall into Arabia and a Saudi prince, Actor Leonard Nimoy arrives with wife Susan Bay Nimoy to distinguished commentary. March 88. California televangelist and American culture — was clouded Saud al-Faisal, recognized as a theater renaming in 2006 in Hollywood Hills, Calif. Nimoy 10. author who beamed his upbeat by a criminal conviction late in his the world’s longest-serving died Feb. 27, at his home in Bel-Air. He was 83. Richard Glatzer, 63. He co- messages on faith and redemption career. April 17. foreign minister. He retired wrote and directed the Alzheimer’s to millions of followers from his Mary Doyle Keefe, 92. The drama “Still Alice” alongside his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to model for Norman Rockwell’s 1943 earlier in the year after 40 history to win popular election to overturn the state’s gay marriage husband, Wash Westmoreland, see his empire crumble in his wan- “Rosie the Riveter” painting that years in the position and died the Senate. Jan. 3. ban. Feb. 5. Cancer. while battling ALS. March 10. ing years. April 2. symbolized the millions of Ameri- in July at age 75. Arch Alfred Moore Jr., 91. Dean Smith, 83. Coaching Terry Pratchett, 66. Fantasy Sarah Kemp Brady, 73. She can women who went to work on Former West German Former West Virginia governor innovator who won two national writer who was the creator of the became an activist for gun control the home front during World War chancellor Helmut Schmidt, and his era’s most successful Re- championships at North Carolina, exuberant, satirical “Discworld” after her husband was shot in the II. April 21. along with Arpad Goncz and publican in a Democrat-dominated an Olympic gold medal in 1976 series and author of more than 70 head in the assassination attempt Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 93. Kim Young-sam, the former state. Jan. 7. and induction into basketball’s books. March 12. on President Ronald Reagan. Former Auschwitz prisoner and Andrae Crouch, 72. Legend- Hall of Fame more than a decade Michael Graves, 80. Cel- April 3. member of ’s underground presidents of and ary gospel performer, songwriter before he left the bench. Feb. 7. ebrated architect who created Robert Burns Jr., 64. Former World War II resistance who South Korea, were among and choir director whose work Kenji Ekuan, 85. Japanese whimsical postmodern structures drummer and a founding member helped save Jews and later served world leaders who died. Other graced songs by Michael Jackson industrial designer whose works and later designed products for of the Southern hard rock band twice as the country’s foreign political figures included Dela- and Madonna and movies such as ranged from a bullet train to the people with disabilities and house- Lynyrd Skynyrd. April 3. Vehicle minister. April 24. ware Attorney General Joseph “The Lion King.” Jan. 8. red-capped Kikkoman soy sauce hold goods such as whistling crash. Don M. Mankiewicz, 93. R. “Beau” Biden III, son of U.S. Anita Ekberg, 83. Swedish- dispenser. Feb. 7. Alessi teakettles and stainless Richard Dysart, 86. Vet- Oscar-nominated screenwriter born actress and sex-symbol Jerry Tarkanian, 84. Hall of steel colanders. March 12. eran stage and screen actor who from a legendary Hollywood Vice President Joe Biden; Iraqi of the 1950s and ‘60s who was Fame coach who built a basketball Rev. Willie Barrow, 90. Front- played senior partner Leland family who created the television politician Ahmad Chalabi; and immortalized bathing in the Trevi dynasty at UNLV but was defined line civil rights fighter for decades McKenzie in the long-running shows “Marcus Welby, M.D.” and Russian opposition leader fountain in “La Dolce Vita.” Jan. 11. more by his decades-long battle and a mentor to younger genera- TV courtroom drama “L.A. Law.” “Ironside.” April 25. Boris Nemtsov. Tony Verna, 81. Television di- with the NCAA. Feb. 11. tions of activists. March 12. April 5. Suzanne Crough Condray, Deaths in the arena of sci- rector and producer who invented Bob Simon, 73. Longtime Samuel Charters, 85. Histo- James Best, 88. Prolific 52. Youngest daughter on the ence and innovation included instant replay for live sports. Jan. “60 Minutes” correspondent who rian of American blues, folk and character actor best known for his hit 1970s television show “The 18. covered riots, Academy Award- jazz who helped introduce a gen- role as Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane Partridge Family.” April 27. John Forbes Nash Jr., the Reies Lopez Tijerina, 88. nominated movies and wars and eration of music lovers to Robert on “The Dukes of Hazzard.” April 6. Jack Ely, 71. Singer known mathematical genius whose Pentecostal preacher turned was held captive for more than a Johnson, Blind Willie McTell and Complications of pneumonia. for “Louie Louie,” the low-budget struggle with schizophrenia activist who led a violent raid of a month in Iraq two decades ago. other performers. March 18. Bone Richard Post, 96. Prominent recording that became one the was chronicled in the film “A northern New Mexico courthouse Feb. 11. Car crash. marrow disorder. scientist at Lawrence Livermore most famous songs of the 20th Beautiful Mind.” nearly 50 years ago. Jan. 19. Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Malcolm Fraser, 84. Former National Laboratory who re- century. April 28. Some other deaths in the Anne Kirkbride, 60. A star 84. Revered Islamic spiritual Australian prime minister who was searched how to store renewable Jean Nidetch, 91. New York science world: inventor For- of British soap opera “Coronation leader who helped bolster unity notoriously catapulted to power by energy. April 7. housewife who tackled her own Street” for more than 40 years. in Malaysia’s opposition bloc and a constitutional crisis that left the Jean-Louis Cremieux- obesity, then shared her guiding rest Bird, nuclear physicist Jan. 19. was a key advocate of Islamic law. nation bitterly divided. March 20. Brilhac, 98. A Jewish member of principles with others in meetings Ralph Nobles, engineer Oscar Melvin Gordon, 95. Longtime Feb. 12. Jerry Warren, 84. The editor the French Resistance in charge that became known as Weight Carl Holderer, chemist Carl Tootsie Roll Industries Inc. chair- Gary Owens, 80. Droll, of San Diego’s largest newspaper of propaganda during World War Watchers, the most widely known Djerassi and scientist Richard man and CEO, who helped turn mellifluous-voiced announcer on for 20 years and a White House II. April 8. company of its kind. April 29. Post. the enduring popularity of the “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” and press secretary during the Nixon Joel Spira, 88. He brought the Dan Walker, 92. Combative Among the entertainers humble Tootsie Roll into a candy a familiar part of radio, TV and and Ford administrations. March light dimmer switch to households populist who became Illinois gov- empire. Jan. 20. movies for more than six decades. 20. across the nation and transformed ernor after condemning Chicago’s who died in 2015 was an actor Wendell Ford, 90. Former Feb. 12. Chuck Bednarik, 89. Pro his Lutron Electronics Company reaction to Democratic National who helped take TV viewers U.S. senator and Kentucky gov- Michele Ferrero, 89. World’s Football Hall of Famer and one into a leading manufacturer of Convention demonstrations as “a to alien worlds while showing ernor who was an unapologetic richest candy maker whose of the last great two-way NFL play- lighting controls. April 8. police riot” and later went to prison the common humanity that smoker whose unfiltered chats Nutella chocolate and hazelnut ers. March 21. Lauren Hill, 19. Freshman for bank fraud. April 29. unites everyone: Leonard and speeches endeared him to spread helped raise generations Lee Kuan Yew, 91. Founder at Ohio university who fought an Ben E. King, 76. Unforgettable Nimoy, 83, who was beloved voters. Jan. 22. of Europeans and defined Italian of modern Singapore who was inoperable brain tumor to play col- lead singer for the Drifters and by generations of “Star Trek” King Abdullah, 90. The Saudi sweets. Feb. 14. both feared for his authoritarian lege basketball. April 10. solo star whose plaintive baritone monarch was a powerful U.S. Louis Jourdan, 93. Dash- tactics and admired for turning the Guenter Grass, 87. Nobel- graced such pop and rhythm ‘n fans for his portrayal of the ally who fought against al-Qaida ingly handsome Frenchman who city-state into one of the world’s winning German writer who gave blues classics as “Stand by Me,” pointy-eared Mr. Spock. and sought to modernize the starred in “Gigi,” ‘’Can-Can,” ‘’Three richest nations while in power for voice to the generation that came ‘’There Goes My Baby” and “Span- For some, the end came ultraconservative Muslim kingdom, Coins in the Fountain” and other 31 years. March 23. of age during the horrors of the ish Harlem.” April 30. far too soon. At just 22, Bobbi including by nudging open greater American movies. Feb. 14. Gary Ross Dahl, 78. Creator Nazi era but later ran into con- Frank Olivo, 66. He was the Kristina Brown died in July opportunities for women. Jan. 23. Lesley Gore, 68. She topped of the wildly popular 1970s fad troversy over his own World War fill-in Santa whose downfield jaunt in hospice care. Her death Ernie Banks, 83. Hall of Fame the charts in 1963 at age 16 with the Pet Rock. March 23. Chronic II past and stance toward . at a Philadelphia Eagles game in slugger and two-time MVP who her epic song of teenage angst, obstructive pulmonary disease. April 13. 1968 lives on in sports history for came six months after she never lost his boundless enthusi- “It’s My Party,” and followed it up Yehuda Avner, 86. Former Is- Percy Sledge, 74. He record- was found face-down in a asm for baseball despite years of with the hit “Judy’s Turn to Cry,” raeli diplomat and aide to a string ed the classic 1966 soul ballad bathtub in her home, creating playing on losing Chicago Cubs and the feminist anthem “You of prime ministers who turned his DEATHS | PAGE 8 an eerie echo of the death of teams. Jan. 23. Don’t Own Me.” Feb. 16. Lung her mother, singer Whitney Stig Bergling, 77. Former cancer. Houston. Swedish security officer who John Willke, 89. Obstetrician sold secrets to the who helped shape the modern Thank You For Your Business! Others in arts and enter- during the and brazenly anti-abortion movement with ideas tainment who died this year escaped while serving a life sen- including a belief that a woman Johnson Electric, LLP, would like to include: actors Christopher tence for . Jan. 24. can resist conception from a Lee, Maureen O’Hara, Dick Otto Carius, 92. World War II sexual assault. Feb. 20. wish everyone a Happy 2016! Van Patten, Yvonne Craig and German panzer ace credited with Ralph Nobles, 94. Nuclear Martin Milner; musicians B.B. destroying more than 150 enemy physicist who worked on the Man- tanks, mostly on the Eastern Front. hattan Project and later led efforts King, Demis Roussos, Allen Jan. 24. to save thousands of acres of Toussaint, Lynn Anderson, Demis Roussos, 68. Re- San Francisco Bay wetlands from Ben E. King and James Horner; nowned Greek singer who was a development. Feb. 20. filmmakers Wes Craven and household name in the 1970s and Leonard Nimoy, 83. Actor Eldar Ryazanov; writers Terry 1980s across Europe and beyond. loved by generations of “Star Trek” Pratchett, Gamal el-Ghitani Jan. 25. fans as Mr. Spock, the pointy- Rod McKuen, 81. Husky- eared, purely logical science and Guenter Grass; cartoon- voiced “King of Kitsch” whose officer. Feb. 27. ist Tom Moore and ballerina avalanche of music, verse and Robert Benmosche, 70. Maya Plisetskaya. spoken-word recordings in the Former AIG President and CEO Rick Merkel • Ben Merkel Here is a roll call of some 1960s and ‘70s overwhelmed who led the insurer’s turnaround of the people who died in critical mockery and made him an after its $182 billion government 2015. (Cause of death cited for Oscar-nominated songwriter and bailout. Feb. 27. Chris Merkel younger people, if available.) one of the best-selling poets in Natalia Revuelta Clews, 89. history. Jan. 29. Cuban socialite who emptied JANUARY: Carl Djerassi, 91. Chemist her bank account and sold her • Rural • Residential • Commercial widely considered the father of the diamond jewelry to support Fidel Mario Cuomo, 82. Son of birth control pill. Jan. 30. Castro when he was a little-known • Electrical • Telephone Italian immigrants who became Lizabeth Scott, 92. Her long insurgent. Feb. 27. an eloquent spokesman for a tawny hair, alluring face and low, Boris Nemtsov, 55. 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