Deaths from multiple myeloma

Flynn James Robinson (born April 28, 1941 – May 23, 2013) was an American professional basketball player.

Kazue Oizumi (大泉和枝 Ōizumi Kazue, March 20, 1929 – March 23, 1999), known by the stage name Kazue Takahashi (高橋和枝 Takahashi Kazue), was a Japanese voice actress.

Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American attorney, a Democratic Party politician, and a member of the United States House of Representatives.

Philip Arnold "Phil" Smith (April 22, 1952 – July 29, 2002) was an American professional basketball player who played for 9 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Joseph "Joe" Kubert (/ˈkjuːbərt/; September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was an American comic book artist, art teacher and founder of The Kubert School.

Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams, FBA (21 September 1929 – 10 June 2003) was an English moral philosopher.

Timothy John Byford (Serbian: Тимоти Џон Бајфорд/Timoti Džon Bajford; 25 July 1941 – 5 May 2014) was an author, film director, translator, and educator.

William Henry Rorke (October 23, 1910 – August 19, 1987) was an American actor best known for playing Colonel Alfred E.

Howard Tate (August 13, 1939 – December 2, 2011) was an American soul singer and songwriter.

Leo Edward O'Neil (January 31, 1928 – November 30, 1997) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Melvin Randolph "Randy" Primas, Jr.

Theodore Otto Uhlaender (October 21, 1939 – February 12, 2009) was a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds from 1965–1972.

Jacob Akiba Marinsky (April 11, 1918 – September 1, 2005) was a chemist who was the co-discoverer of the element promethium.

Nathan Isgur (May 25, 1947 – July 24, 2001) was a theoretical physicist from the U.

Merle Sande(September 2, 1939 – November 4, 2007) was a leading American infectious-diseases expert whose early recognition of the looming public health crisis posed by AIDS led to the development of basic protocols for how to handle infected patients.

Michael J. Vernon, AM (2 April 1932 – 6 November 1993) was a prominent Australian consumer activist.

Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (May 27, 1948 – May 13, 2014), born as Diana Moore, subsequently known as Morning Glory Ferns, Morning Glory Zell and briefly Morning G'Zell, was a Neopagan community leader, author, lecturer, and priestess of the Church of All Worlds.

Douglas Thomas Montague Birks (4 July 1919 – 26 February 2004) was an English cricketer.

Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became well known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups.

Peter Arnold Rona (August 17, 1934 – February 20, 2014) was an American oceanographer.

Frank James Reynolds (November 29, 1923 – July 20, 1983) was an American television journalist for CBS and ABC News.

Derek Ernest Denny-Brown OBE (1901 – 20 April 1981) was a New Zealand-born neurologist.

James "Jim" Isaac (June 5, 1960 – May 6, 2012) was an American film director and visual effects supervisor.

Ama Sumani (28 August 1965 - 19 March 2008) was a Ghanaian woman who was expelled from the United Kingdom to Ghana after overstaying her visa while she was suffering from a terminal form of bone marrow cancer and receiving dialysis treatment.

Robert W. Bussard (August 11, 1928 – October 6, 2007) was an American physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research.

Paul Kent (October 13, 1930 – October 7, 2011) was an American character actor who starred in film, television and theater for over five decades.

Solomon J. Buchsbaum (December 4, 1929 – March 8, 1993) was a Polish American physicist and technologist, best known as chair of the White House Science Council under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.

Angela Denise Coughlan, O.

Hulda Regehr Clark (18 October 1928 in Rosthern, Saskatchewan – 3 September 2009 in Chula Vista, California) was a naturopath, author, and practitioner of alternative medicine.

Richard Bell (March 5, 1946 – June 15, 2007) was a Canadian musician best known as the pianist for Janis Joplin and her Full Tilt Boogie Band.

Melvin G. Goldstein (October 23, 1945 – January 18, 2012), known on air as Dr.

Jerome Cooper (December 14, 1946 – May 6, 2015) was an American free jazz musician.

William Wallis (20 November 1936 – 6 September 2013) was an English character actor and comedian who appeared in numerous radio and television roles, as well as in the theatre.

Jo Clayton (February 15, 1939 – February 13, 1998) was an American fantasy and science fiction author.

Elijah Alfred Alexander III (August 2, 1970 – March 24, 2010) was a linebacker who played ten seasons in the NFL for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts and Oakland Raiders.

Felix Dexter (26 July 1961 – 18 October 2013) was a Saint Kitts-born British actor, comedian, and writer.

Grace Halsell (May 7, 1923 – August 16, 2000) was an American journalist and writer.

Ken Judge (15 January 1958 – 15 January 2016) was an Australian rules footballer and coach.

Leonard Paul "Lenny" Zakim (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish-American religious and civil rights leader in Boston.

Maxwell Henry Norman "Max" Walker AM (12 September 1948 – 28 September 2016) was an Australian sportsman who played both cricket and Australian rules football at high levels.

Jack Morris Rosenthal CBE (8 September 1931 – 29 May 2004) was an English playwright, who wrote 129 early episodes of the ITV soap opera Coronation Street and over 150 screenplays, including original TV plays, feature films, and adaptations.

Bülent Arel (23 April 1919 – 24 November 1990) was a Turkish-born composer of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

Helene Anna Held (19 March 1872 – 12 August 1918), known professionally as Anna Held, was a Polish-born French and later Broadway stage performer and singer, most often associated with impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, her common-law husband.

Sir Cyril Ambrose Walsh KBE (15 June 1909 – 29 November 1973), Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Daniel Seligman (September 25, 1924 – January 31, 2009) was an editor and columnist at Fortune magazine from 1950 to 1997.

Frank McGee (September 12, 1921 – April 17, 1974) was an American television journalist, best known for his work with NBC from the late 1950s into the early 1970s.

George F. Andreasen (February 16, 1934 – August 11, 1989), born in Fremont, Nebraska, was an American orthodontist and inventor.

Orhan Boran (30 June 1928 – 26 May 2012) was a Turkish radio and TV host and actor.

Miklós "Mickey" Hargitay (/ˈhɑːrɡᵻteɪ/; HAR-gi-tay Hungarian: Hargitay Miklós [ˈhɒrgitɒi ˈmikloːʃ]; January 6, 1926 – September 14, 2006) was a Hungarian-American actor and Mr.

Stephen Boros, Jr.

Donald Jeffry Herbert (born Donald Herbert Kemske and better known as Mr. Wizard, July 10, 1917 – June 12, 2007) was the creator and host of Watch Mr.

Edwin Garrigues (Gary) Boring (23 October 1886 – 1 July 1968) was an American experimental psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Clark University and at Harvard University, who later became one of the first historians of psychology.

Yvon Cormier (November 3, 1938 – March 4, 2009) was a Canadian professional wrestler.

Mark Lenard (October 15, 1924 – November 22, 1996) was an American actor, primarily in television.

Jane Little (née Findley; February 2, 1929 – May 15, 2016) was an American classical double bass player, known for her exceptionally long tenure with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

Hazel Medina (October 8, 1937 – February 14, 2012) was a Panamanian-born American actress and social worker.

Malcolm L. Diamond (November 6, 1924 – December 27, 1997) was William H.

Charles William "Bill" Young (December 16, 1930 – October 18, 2013) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 2013.

Scott Milne Matheson Jr.

Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 – July 6, 2006) was an American author, editor, publisher and photo-journalist.

Deborah Louise Bone MBE (10 January 1963 – 30 December 2014) was an award-winning British mental health nurse and the subject of the Pulp song "Disco 2000", written by her close friend Jarvis Cocker.

Leonore Carol "Lee" Israel (December 3, 1939 – December 24, 2014) was a noted author who was later discovered to be a literary forger and thief.

Gilbert Moses III (August 20, 1942 – April 15, 1995) was an American stage, screen, and television director.

Pete Jolly (June 5, 1932 – November 6, 2004) was an American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist.

Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer née Friedman (July 4, 1918 – June 22, 2002), better known by the pen name Ann Landers, was an American advice columnist and eventually a nationwide media celebrity.

Stephen Jay Friedman (March 15, 1937 – October 4, 1996) was an American film producer known for The Last Picture Show (1971) and The Big Easy (1988).

Lloyd Thaxton (May 31, 1927 – October 5, 2008) was an American writer, television producer, director, and television host best known for his syndicated pop music television program of the 1960s, The Lloyd Thaxton Show, which began as a local Los Angeles program on KCOP in 1961.

Michel Mirowski (October 14, 1924 – March 26, 1990) was a physician who helped develop the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD).

Louis Richard "Lou" Rukeyser (January 30, 1933 – May 2, 2006) was an American financial journalist, columnist, and commentator, through print, radio, and television.

Mario Acuña (March 12, 1940 – March 5, 2009), born in Córdoba, Argentina, was a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Space Plasmas and Planetary Magnetospheres Branches, and then as a Senior Astrophysicist.

Martha Beall Mitchell (September 2, 1918 – May 31, 1976) was the wife of John N.

Charles Thomas "Tom" Cole (April 8, 1933 – February 23, 2009) was a playwright and screenwriter.

Alastair Ross Goobey CBE (6 December 1945 – 2 February 2008) was a leading British investment manager and pension fund manager.

Caro Jones (1923 - September 3, 2009) was an American actress and casting director who was responsible for casting more than 1,000 films, theater productions and television shows over the course of more than forty years, including Rocky, The Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres.

Darrell L. Harper (June 18, 1938 – January 19, 2008) was an American football player.

David Joseph Weber (December 20, 1940 – August 20, 2010) was an American historian whose research focused on the history of the Southwestern U.

Eirug Wyn (11 December 1950 – 25 April 2004) was a Welsh satirical novelist who wrote in the Welsh language.

Graham Powley Jarvis (August 25, 1930 – April 16, 2003) was a Canadian character actor in American films and television from the 1960s to the early 2000s.

Myron Walter Drabowsky (July 21, 1935 – June 10, 2006) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) right-handed relief pitcher.

María Elvia Amaya Araujo (27 February 1954 – 8 September 2012) was a Mexican psychologist, philanthropist, and politician affiliated with the PRI.

Ivan Doig (June 27, 1939 – April 9, 2015) was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.

John Carter Brown III (October 8, 1934 – June 17, 2002), director of the U.

James Drewry Stewart (March 29, 1941 – December 3, 2014) was a Canadian mathematician, violinist, and the professor emeritus of mathematics at McMaster University.

James "Jim" Keays (9 September 1946 – 13 June 2014) was an Australian musician who fronted rock band The Masters Apprentices as singer-songwriter, guitarist and harmonica-player from 1965 to 1972, and subsequently had a solo career.