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JOSEFINA BAUTISTA MAGNO, 83, an oncologist who helped introduce hospice treatment to the United States, died Sunday at a hospital in Manila, Philippines. As the first executive director of the National Hospice Organization of the United States, the Philippines native helped push the number of U.S. hospice programs from less than 100 to 1,200, serving every state. She also organized the International Hospice Institute in 1984 to train doctors in the management of terminal illness. Hospice care is directed at providing comfort and dignity to the terminally ill and to their families and friends.
AARON BELL, 82, a bassist who played with Duke Ellington and other musical greats, died Monday in New York City. He also recorded with Buck Clayton, Billie Holiday and Sammy Davis Jr., among others.
WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini camera featured in spy movies, died July 17 at his home in northern Switzerland, the manufacturer confirmed. Mr. Zapp's invention, which fits in the palm of a hand and weighs less than a cigarette lighter, has been used in James Bond movies and other films. More than 1-million have been sold, said Thorsten Kortemeier, managing director of Minox GmbH in Wetzlar, Germany.
MARSHALL LON "DEACON" FREEMAN, 82, the last surviving member of the Oak Ridge Quartet, which later became gospel group The Oak Ridge Boys, died Wednesday in Rocky Face, Ga.
JOHN ROY HARPER II, 63, a longtime civil rights activist and lawyer, died Sunday in Columbia, S.C. He served as vice president of the Columbia branch of the NAACP and as general counsel for the state NAACP.
HAROLD ALTMAN, 79, an artist whose lithographs are on display around the world, died Monday in State College, Pa. The former Penn State professor was twice awarded Guggenheim Fellowships. His work appears in dozens of museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.
JIRI HORAK, 79, the first leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party after the fall of communism, died July 25 in Englewood. He headed the Social Democrats in 1990-92 after the Velvet Revolution led by playwright and democracy activist Vaclav Havel peacefully toppled communist rule. In 1993, he moved back to the United States, where he had emigrated in 1951.
HONEY CRAVEN, 98, who was associated with most of the major horse shows in the United States, died July 22 in Guilford, Conn. He was the longtime manager and ringmaster of the National Horse Show in Madison Square Garden and the Devon Horse Show in Pennsylvania.
HAROLD C. SCHONBERG, 87, the chief music critic of the New York Times from 1960 to 1980 and first music critic to win a Pulitzer Prize for criticism, died Saturday in New York City.
JOHN AUBUCHON, 57, a reporter for Maryland Public Television and former president of the National Press Club, died July 23 at a Washington, D.C., hospital of complications from lung cancer.