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World Bank
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Purpose/focus Crediting Location Washington DC Membership 187 countries (IBRD) 170 countries (IDA) President Robert B. Zoellick Main organ Board of Directors [1] Parent organization World Bank Group Website worldbank.org The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans [2] to developing countries for capital programmers. The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty. By law, [which?] all of its decisions must be guided by a commitment to promote foreign investment, international trade and facilitate capital investment? [3] The World Bank differs from the World Bank Group, in that the World Bank comprises only two institutions: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA), whereas the latter incorporates these two in addition to three more: [4] International Finance Corporation (IFC), Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
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1. WORLD BANK i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. History Leadership List of chief economists Members Voting power Poverty reduction strategies Clean Technology Fund management Clean Air Initiative United Nations Development Business Criticism Transport
2. Portal:Current events i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. viii. ix. x. xi. xii. xiii. xiv. xv. 1 August 2011 (Monday) 2 August 2011 (Tuesday) 3 August 2011 (Wednesday) 4 August 2011 (Thursday) 5 August 2011 (Friday) 6 August 2011 (Saturday) 7 August 2011 (Sunday) 8 August 2011 (Monday) 9 August 2011 (Tuesday) 10 August 2011 (Wednesday) 11 August 2011 (Thursday) 12 August 2011 (Friday) 13 August 2011 (Saturday) 14 August 2011 (Sunday) 15 August 2011 (Monday)
3. Portal:Featured content i. Featured article: December 21, 2007 ii. Featured picture: February 12, 2008 iii. Featured list: List of notable brain tumor patients
4. Kingston, Queensland
i. Transport ii. History iii. Kingston toxic waste disaster 5. Reduction of poverty i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. Etymology Measuring poverty Characteristics Poverty reduction Increasing personal income Voluntary poverty
6. World bank group i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii. Membership Organizational structure Allegations of corruption Effectiveness List of presidents List of chief economists List of World Bank Directors-General of Evaluation
7. World Bank chief 8. Training Seminar for World Bank Staff 9. World Bank staff working paper, 10. World bank development report
History
John Maynard Keynes (right) represented the United Kingdom at the conference, and Harry Dexter White (left) represented the United States. The World Bank is one of five institutions created at the Breton Woods Conference in 1944. The International Monetary Fund, a related institution, is the second. Delegates from many countries attended the Bretton Woods Conference. The most powerful countries in attendance were the United States and United Kingdom, which dominated negotiations.[5] Although both are based in Washington, D.C., the World Bank is, by custom, headed by an American, while the IMF is led by a European.
19451968
From its conception until 1967 the bank undertook a relatively low level of lending. Fiscal conservatism and careful screening of loan applications was common. Bank staff attempted to balance the priorities of providing loans for reconstruction and development with the need to instill confidence in the bank.[6] Bank president John McCoy selected France to be first recipient of World Bank aid; two other applications from Poland and Chile were rejected. The loan was for $250 million, half the amount requested and came with strict conditions. Staff from the World Bank monitored the use of the funds, ensuring that the French government would present a balanced budget and give priority of debt repayment to the World Bank over other governments. The United States State Department told the French government that
communist elements within the Cabinet needed to be removed. The French Government complied with this diktat and removed the Communist coalition government. Within hours the loan to France was approved.[7] The Marshall Plan of 1947 caused lending by the bank to change as many European countries received aid that competed with World Bank loans. Emphasis was shifted to non-European countries and until 1968, loans were earmarked for projects that would enable a borrower country to repay loans (such projects as ports, highway systems, and power plants).
19681980
From 1968 to 1980, the bank concentrated on meeting the basic needs of people in the developing world.[citation needed] The size and number of loans to borrowers was greatly increased as loan targets expanded from infrastructure into social services and other sectors.[citation needed] These changes can be attributed to Robert McNamara who was appointed to the presidency in 1968 by Lyndon B. Johnson.[8] McNamara imported a technocratic managerial style to the Bank that he had used as United States Secretary of Defense and President of the Ford Motor Company.[9] McNamara shifted bank policy toward measures such as building schools and hospitals, improving literacy and agricultural reform. McNamara created a new system of gathering information from potential borrower nations that enabled the bank to process loan applications much faster. To finance more loans, McNamara told bank treasurer Eugene Rothberg to seek out new sources of capital outside of the northern banks that had been the primary sources of bank funding. Rothberg used the global bond market to increase the capital available to the bank.[10] One consequence of the period of poverty alleviation lending was the rapid rise of third world debt. From 1976 to 1980 developing world debt rose at an average annual rate of 20%.[11][12] In 1980, the World Bank Administrative Tribunal was established to decide on disputes between the World Bank Group and its staff where allegation of non-observance of contracts of employment or terms of appointment had not been honoured.[13]
19801989
The neutrality of this article is disputed. Please see the discussion on the talk page. Please do not remove this message until the dispute is resolved. (May 2011) In 1980, A.W. Clausen replaced McNamara after being nominated by US President Jimmy Carter. Clausen replaced a large number of bank staffers from the McNamara era and instituted a new ideological focus in the bank. The replacement of Chief Economist Hollis B. Chenery by Anne Krueger in 1982 marked a notable policy shift at the bank.
Krueger was known for her criticism of development funding as well as third world governments as rent-seeking states. Lending to service third world debt marked the period of 19801989. Structural adjustment policies aimed at streamlining the economies of developing nations were also a large part of World Bank policy during this period. UNICEF reported in the late 1980s that the structural adjustment programs of the World Bank were responsible for the "reduced health, nutritional and educational levels for tens of millions of children in Asia, Latin America, and Africa".[14]
1989present
From 1989, World Bank policy changed in response to criticism from many groups. Environmental groups and NGOs were incorporated in the lending of the bank in order to mitigate the effects of the past that prompted such harsh criticism.[15]
The World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Leadership
The President of the Bank, currently Robert B. Zoellick, is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Boards of Directors and for overall management of the Bank. Traditionally, the Bank President has always been a US citizen nominated by the United States, the largest shareholder in the bank. The nominee is subject to confirmation by the Board of Governors, to serve for a five-year, renewable term.[16] The Executive Directors, representing the Bank's member countries, make up the Board of Directors, usually meeting twice a week to oversee activities such as the approval of loans and guarantees, new policies, the administrative budget, country assistance strategies and borrowing and financing decisions. The Vice Presidents of the Bank are its principal managers, in charge of regions, sectors, networks and functions. There are 24 Vice-Presidents, three Senior Vice Presidents and two Executive Vice Presidents.
List of Presidents
Not all World Bank Presidents have banking experience with some as political appointments. Name Dates Nationality Field 1. Eugene Meyer 19461946 United States Newspaper publisher 2. John J. McCloy 19471949 United States Lawyer and US Assistant Secretary of War 3. Eugene R. Black, Sr. 19491963 United States Bank executive with Chase and executive director with the World Bank 4. George Woods 19631968 United States Bank executive with First Boston Corporation 5. Robert McNamara19681981 United States US Defense Secretary, business executive with Ford Motor Company 6. Alden W. Clausen 19811986 United States Lawyer, bank executive with Bank of America 7. Barber Conable 19861991 United States New York State Senator and US Congressman 8. Lewis T. Preston 19911995 United States Bank executive with J.P. Morgan 9. Sir James Wolfensohn 19952005 United States Australia[note 1] Corporate lawyer and banker 10. Paul Wolfowitz 20052007 United States Various cabinet and government positions; US Ambassador to Indonesia,, US Deputy Secretary of Defense 11. Robert B. Zoellick2007present United States Bank executive with Goldman Sachs, Deputy Secretary of State and US Trade Representative
List of chief economists

Main article: World Bank Chief Economist
1. Justin Yifu Lin 2. Hollis B. Chenery (19721982) 3. Anne Osborn Krueger (19821986) 4. Stanley Fischer (19881990) 5. Lawrence Summers (19911993) 6. Michael Bruno (19931996) 7. Joseph E. Stiglitz (19972000) 8. Nicholas Stern (20002003) 9. Franois Bourguignon (20032007) 10. Justin Yifu Lin (June 2008 )
Members
Main article: List of World Bank members The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) has 187 member countries, while the International Development Association (IDA) has 168 members.[17] Each member state of IBRD should be also a member of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and only members of IBRD are allowed to join other institutions within the Bank (such as IDA).[18]
Voting power
In 2010, voting powers at the World Bank were revised to increase the voice of developing countries, notably China. The countries with most voting power are now the United States (15.85%), Japan (6.84%), China (4.42%), Germany (4.00%), the United Kingdom (3.75%), France (3.75%), and India (2.91%). Under the changes, known as 'Voice Reform - Phase 2', other countries that saw significant gains included South Korea, Turkey, Mexico, Singapore, Greece, Brazil, India, and Spain. Most developed countries' voting power was reduced, while countries including Nigeria, United States', Russia's and Saudi Arabia's voting power was unchanged.[19][20] The changes were brought about with the goal of making voting more universal in regards to standards, rule-based with objective indicators, and transparent among other things. Now, developing countries have an increased voice in the "Pool Model," backed especially by Europe. Additionally, voting power is based on economic size in addition to International Development Association contributions.[21]
Poverty reduction strategies

For the poorest developing countries in the world, the bank's assistance plans are based on poverty reduction strategies; by combining a cross-section of local groups with an extensive analysis of the country's financial and economic situation the World Bank develops a strategy pertaining uniquely to the country in question. The government then identifies the country's priorities and targets for the reduction of poverty, and the World Bank aligns its aid efforts correspondingly.
Forty-five countries pledged US$25.1 billion in "aid for the world's poorest countries", aid that goes to the World Bank International Development Association (IDA) which distributes the loans to eighty poorer countries. While wealthier nations sometimes fund their own aid projects, including those for diseases, and although IDA is the recipient of criticism, Robert B. Zoellick, the president of the World Bank, said when the loans were announced on December 15, 2007, that IDA money "is the core funding that the poorest developing countries rely on".[22]
Clean Technology Fund management

The World Bank has been assigned temporary management responsibility of the Clean Technology Fund (CTF), focused on making renewable energy cost-competitive with coal-fired power as quickly as possible, but this may not continue after UN's Copenhagen climate change conference in December, 2009, because of the Bank's continued investment in coal-fired power plants.[23]
Clean Air Initiative

Clean Air Initiative (CAI)[24] is a World Bank initiative to advance innovative ways to improve air quality in cities through partnerships in selected regions of the world by sharing knowledge and experiences. It includes electric vehicles.
United Nations Development Business

Based on an agreement between the United Nations and the World Bank in 1981, Development Business became the official source for World Bank Procurement Notices, Contract Awards, and Project Approvals.[25] In 1998, the agreement was re-negotiated, and included in this agreement was a joint venture to create an electronic version of the publication via the World Wide Web. Today, Development Business is the primary publication for all major multilateral development banks, United Nations agencies, and several national governments, many of whom have made the publication of their tenders and contracts in Development Business a mandatory requirement.[26] Currently, the subscription to "online version only" is not free, but costs US$ 550.[27] The World Bank or the World Bank Group is also a sitting observer in the United Nations Development Group.[28]
Criticism
The World Bank has long been criticized by non-governmental organizations, such as the indigenous rights group Survival International, and academics, including its former Chief Economist Joseph Stiglitz who is equally critical of the International Monetary Fund, the US Treasury Department, US and other developed country trade negotiators.[29] Critics argue that the so-called free market reform policies which the Bank advocates are often harmful to economic development if implemented badly, too quickly ("shock therapy"), in the wrong sequence or in weak, uncompetitive economies.[29][30]
In Masters of Illusion: The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations (1996), Catherine Caufield argued that the assumptions and structure of the World Bank harms southern nations. Caufield criticized its formulaic recipes of "development". To the World Bank, different nations and regions are indistinguishable and ready to receive the "uniform remedy of development". She argued that to attain even modest success, Western practices are adopted and traditional economic structures and values abandoned. A second assumption is that poor countries cannot modernize without money and advice from abroad. A number of intellectuals in developing countries have argued that the World Bank is deeply implicated in contemporary modes of donor and NGO imperialism, and that its intellectual contributions function to blame the poor for their condition.[31] One of the strongest criticisms of the World Bank has been the way in which it is governed. While the World Bank represents 186 countries, it is run by a small number of economically powerful countries. These countries choose the leadership and senior management of the World Bank, and so their interests dominate the bank.[32] The World Bank has dual roles that are contradictory: that of a political organization and that of a practical organization. As a political organization, the World Bank must meet the demands of donor and borrowing governments, private capital markets, and other international organizations. As an action-oriented organization, it must be neutral, specializing in development aid, technical assistance, and loans. The World Bank's obligations to donor countries and private capital markets have caused it to adopt policies which dictate that poverty is best alleviated by the implementation of "market" policies. [33] In the 1990s, the World Bank and the IMF forged the Washington Consensus, policies which included deregulation and liberalization of markets, privatization and the downscaling of government. Though the Washington Consensus was conceived as a policy that would best promote development, it was criticized for ignoring equity, employment and how reforms like privatization were carried out. Many now agree[citation needed] that the Washington Consensus placed too much emphasis on the growth of GDP, and not enough on the permanence of growth or on whether growth contributed to better living standards.[34] Some analysis shows that the World Bank has increased poverty and been detrimental to the environment, public health and cultural diversity.[35] Some critics also claim that the World Bank has consistently pushed a neoliberal agenda, imposing policies on developing countries which have been damaging, destructive and anti-developmental.[36] [37] It has also been suggested that the World Bank is an instrument for the promotion of US or Western interests in certain regions of the world. South American nations have even established the Bank of the South in order to reduce US influence in the region.[38] One
criticism of the bank is that the President is always a citizen of the United States, nominated by the President of the United States (though subject to the "approval" of the other member countries). There have been accusations that the decision-making structure is undemocratic as the US has a veto on some constitutional decisions with just over 16% of the shares in the bank;[39] Decisions can only be passed with votes from countries whose shares total more than 85% of the bank's shares.[40] A further criticism concerns internal management and the manner in which the World Bank is said to lack accountability.[41] Criticism of the World Bank often takes the form of protesting as seen in recent events such as the World Bank Oslo 2002 Protests,[42] the October Rebellion,[43] and the Battle of Seattle.[44] Such demonstrations have occurred all over the world, even amongst the Brazilian Kayapo people.[45] In 2008, a World Bank report which found that biofuels had driven food prices up 75% was not published. Officials confided that they believed it was suppressed to avoid embarrassing the then-President of the United States, George W. Bush.[46] The World Bank has been criticized[by whom?] for the manner in which it engages in "the production, accumulation, circulation and functioning" of knowledge. The Bank's production of knowledge has become integral to the funding and justification of large capital projects. The Bank relies on "a growing network of translocal scientists, technocrats, NGOs, and empowered citizens to help generate data and construct discursive strategies".[47] Its capacity to produce authoritative knowledge is a response to intense scrutiny of Bank projects resulting from the successes of growing anti-Bank and alternative-development movements.[48] "Development has relied exclusively on one knowledge system, namely, the modern Western one. The dominance of this knowledge system has dictated the marginalization and disqualification of non-Western knowledge systems".[49] It has been remarked that in these alternative knowledge systems, researchers and activists might find alternative rationales to guide interventionist action away from Western (Bank-produced) ways of thinking. Knowledge production has become an asset to the Bank, and "it is generated and used in highly strategic ways"[48] to provide justifications for development.
Structural adjustment
The effect of structural adjustment policies on poor countries has been one of the most significant criticisms of the World Bank. The 1979 energy crisis plunged many countries into economic crises.[50] The World Bank responded with structural adjustment loans which distributed aid to struggling countries while enforcing policy changes in order to reduce inflation and fiscal imbalance. Some of these policies included encouraging production, investment and labour-intensive manufacturing, changing real exchange rates and altering the distribution of government resources.[51] Structural adjustment policies were most effective in countries with an institutional framework that allowed these policies to be implemented easily.[51] For some countries, particularly in Sub-Saharan
Africa, economic growth regressed and inflation worsened.[51] The alleviation of poverty was not a goal of structural adjustment loans, and the circumstances of the poor often worsened, due to a reduction in social spending and an increase in the price of food, as subsidies were lifted.[51] By the late 1980s, international organizations began to admit that structural adjustment policies were worsening life for the world's poor. The World Bank changed structural adjustment loans, allowing for social spending to be maintained, and encouraging a slower change to policies such as transfer of subsidies and price rises.[52] In 1999, the World Bank and the IMF introduced the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach to replace structural adjustment loans.[53] The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper approach has been interpreted as an extension of structural adjustment policies as it continues to reinforce and legitimize global inequities.[54] Neither approach has addressed the inherent flaws within the global economy that contribute to economic and social inequities within developing countries.[55] By reinforcing the relationship between lending and client states, many believe that the World Bank has usurped indebted countries' power to determine their own economic policy.[56]
Water privatization
Sociologist Michael Goldman has argued that "Industry analysts predict that private water will soon be a capitalized market as precious, and as war-provoking, as oil".[57] Goldman says "These days, an indebted country cannot borrow capital from the World Bank or IMF without a domestic water privatization policy as a precondition".[57] The Bank is utilizing "the 'Washington Consensus' model of "development" to promote water privatization. Following this model, the World Bank is forcing many countries to commodify their water resources, rather than using their expertise in the public sector to acknowledge water as a universal human right and an essential public service".[57] The push for water privatization development plays upon "the shocking tragedy that much of the world lacks affordable clean water". This image creates "new opportunities in development, though it may have little to do with ultimately quenching" the needs of impoverished countries. "The problem of water scarcity for the world's poor has been analyzed by the World Bank as one in which the public sector has failed to deliver, and has therefore prevented development from "taking off", and the economy from modernizing. If the state cannot deliver something as basic as water and sanitation, the argument goes, it is a strong indication of a general failure of public-sector capacity".[57] However, "with the sale or lease of a public good comes more than simply a privatized service; alongside it comes a wide set of postcolonial institutional forces that intervene in state-citizen relations and North-South dynamics".[58] One notable example is the privatization of water forced upon Bolivians by the World Bank which led to multiple protests including the 2000 Cochabamba protests.
Sovereign immunity
Despite claiming goals of "good governance and anti-corruption[59] the World Bank requires sovereign immunity from countries it deals with.[60][61][62][63][64] Sovereign
immunity waives a holder from all legal liability for their actions. It is proposed that this immunity from responsibility is a "shield which [The World Bank] wants resort to, for escaping accountability and security by the people."[60] As the United States has veto power, it can prevent the World Bank from taking action against its interests.[60]
Environmental strategy
The World Bank's ongoing work to develop a strategy on climate change and environmental threats has been criticized for (i) lacking of a proper overall vision and purpose, (ii) having a limited focus on its own role in global and regional governance, and (iii) having limited recognition of specific regional issues, e.g. issues of rights to food and land, and sustainable land use. Critics have also commented that only 1% of the World Bank's lending goes to the environmental sector, narrowly defined.[65] Environmentalists are urging the Bank to stop worldwide support for the development of coal plants and other large emitters of greenhouse gas and operations that are proven to pollute or damage the environment. For instance, protesters in South Africa and abroad have criticized the 2010 decision of the World Bank's approval for a $3.75 billion loan to build the world's 4th largest coal-fired power plant in South Africa. The plant will greatly increase the demand for coal mining and corresponding harmful environmental effects of coal.[66]
Portal:Current events
1 August 2011 (Monday)
Armed conflict and attacks
At least 11 people, including 5 suspects, are killed and 15 others are injured on Sunday's violence in China's Xinjiang region, raising the death toll to 20 over the weekend attacks in Kashgar. (CRI) (The Guardian) 2011 Syrian uprising: More than 142 people are killed across the country in a continuing crackdown on protests. (Al Jazeera) Russia calls for an end to the "use of force" against civilians. (Lebanon Now) (The Moscow Times) The Lebanese Armed Forces exchanged fire with the Israeli Defense Forces patrolling the border, with one Lebanese soldier being injured. (Jerusalem Post)
Business and economy

The HSBC bank announces plans to cut 5,000 jobs now and 25,000 by 2013. (Reuters)
Foxconn Technology, a computer assembler headquartered in Taiwan, plans to add one million robots to its plants over the next three years, according to a Reuters report. (Reuters) BBC journalists stage another 24-hour strike in protest at planned redundancies. (Mail Online) (The Guardian)
Disasters
Anna Bligh, the Premier of Queensland, releases the results of an inquiry into the 2010 2011 Queensland floods which killed 35 people. (Courier Mail) The Italian news agency Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata reports that 25 refugees have been found dead in a boat off the coast of Lampedusa. (CNN) Tropical Storm Emily forms in the Atlantic Ocean with tropical storm warnings issued for Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Desirade, Les Saintes, Marie Galante and the Dominican Republic. (National Hurricane Centre) (NOLA.com)
International relations
North Korea agrees to further talks with the United States as part of efforts to restore Six Party talks on its nuclear weapons program. (Yonhap) South Korea bans three Japanese lawmakers all from the Liberal Democratic Party due to an assertion of Japanese sovereignty over the Liancourt Rocks. (Mainichi Shimbun) (Yonhap)
Politics
Kevin Rudd, the Minister for Foreign Affairs and former Prime Minister of Australia, goes into hospital to have the aortic valve in his heart replaced. (Courier Mail) 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis The United States House of Representatives passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling and avert the 2011 U.S. debt ceiling crisis. (Reuters and AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) More than twenty protesters are arrested after disrupting debate in the House. (Washington Post) Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords makes her first appearance on Capitol Hill since the 2011 Tucson shootings to cast her vote amongst applause. (BBC) (Washington Post) The United States Senate fails to pass a bill ending the partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration. (AP)
2 August 2011 (Tuesday)

2011 Libyan civil war: Seven rebels are killed and 50 injured in fighting in the town of Zlitan. (Xinhua) (Reuters) Suicide bombers attack a guesthouse used by foreigners in the northern Afghanistan province of Kunduz with at least four security guards dead. (Reuters) 2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian Army forces shell the town of Hama for a second successive day. (BBC) Fifteen people are wounded in a bombing of a Syrian Catholic Church in Kirkuk, Iraq. (AFP via Yahoo! News) Egypt's military police and riot police end a three-week Tahrir Square sit-in. (The Washington Post) (The National) (Al-Ahram) Four Ethiopian peacekeepers are killed by a landmine in the Abyei region of Sudan. (Reuters)
Disasters
The United Nations warns that Uganda could be the next country to be affected by the famine in the Horn of Africa. (Reuters) Tropical Storm Emily moves towards Puerto Rico. (NOAA) International relations The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention calls on China to release Liu Xiaobo and his wife. (BBC) Israel's Supreme Court orders the West Bank outpost of Migron, inhabited by 250 Jewish settlers, to be evacuated without delay. (Reuters) Four European nations (the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Portugal) circulate a draft United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the Government of Syria for its recent crackdown on protesters. (Bloomberg)
Law and crime

South Korean prosecutors send a summons to Park Chul, President of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, over alleged embezzlement. (Yonhap) News International phone hacking scandal Former News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner is arrested and later bailed as part of the ongoing investigation into phone hacking. (BBC) Jonathan May-Bowles is jailed for six weeks for throwing a foam pie into the face of Rupert Murdoch at a House of Commons Select Committee hearing. (BBC)
Politics
Around 10,000 Papuan people demonstrate in support of independence from Indonesia in the Papuan capital of Jayapura. (Straits Times)
Peter O'Neill of Southern Highlands Province is elected Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea in a 70-24 vote, ousting acting Prime Minister Sam Abal who promises to contest the decision in court. (Sydney Morning Herald) The United States Senate passes legislation to raise the debt ceiling in order to avert the 2011 US debt ceiling crisis and President Barack Obama signs it into law. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) (New Zealand Herald)
Science
French and Ugandan scientists discover a 20-million year-old skull of a tree-climbing ape in the Karamoja region of Uganda. (Reuters) (Hindustan Times)
3 August 2011 (Wednesday)

Armed conflicts and attacks
2011 Syrian uprising: Syrian forces shell and advance on the city of Hama. (Al Jazeera)

South Africa agrees to loan Swaziland 2.5 billion rand (US$368 million) to ease the latter's economic crisis. (Mail & Guardian) (AFP via Google News) The Chinese Dagong Global Credit Rating downgrades the United States credit rating from A+ to A with a negative outlook. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) The plans of cable entrepreneur John Malone to purchase book store chain Barnes & Noble may have hit a snag, especially over how to value the B&N eReader, the Nook. (New York Post)
Disasters
More than 26,000 people have permanently left New Zealand's Canterbury Region since the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake in February. (AAP via News Limited) Ten people die as a Bell 412 helicopter crashes in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province. (Jakarta Post)
Computer security firm McAfee uncovers one of the largest series of cyber attacks against the International Olympic Committee, Indian government, the United Nations, the steel industry and defence and security firms. (BBC)
Law and crime

Former President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak leaves the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh to return to Cairo for his trial. (AFP via The Melbourne Age) News International phone hacking scandal Charity campaigner Heather Mills tells the BBC's Newsnight that a senior Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking voicemails left for her by Sir Paul McCartney while they were together. (BBC)
Politics
Luke March, who was charged with investigating the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, resigns from the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority after refusing to name those under suspicion. (BBC) The Iranian parliament confirms four new ministers including Rostam Ghasemi as Minister of Petroleum. (Tabnak) David Wu resigns his seat representing Oregon's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives as a result of a sex scandal. (The Oregonian)
4 August 2011 (Thursday)

A senior intelligence officer in Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security, Payenda Khan, is killed in a bombing in Kunduz Province. (CNN)

Kraft Foods announces that it will split into two operations consisting of its North American grocery business and its global snack foods business. (Reuters via Yahoo!) Stock markets around the world fall on the back of concerns about global economic growth with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by 4%. (New York Times)
Disasters
Tropical Storm Emily is expected to make landfall on Haiti where it is expected to cause heavy flooding. (AP via Houston Chronicle) The Japanese government led by Prime Minister Naoto Kan announces that it is firing three senior bureaucrats responsible for nuclear energy policy as a result of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster earlier this year. (AP via Washington Post)
Fourteen states in the Southern United States are on a heat alert with several dozen deaths since July as part of a heat wave. (MSNBC)
Sky News reports new evidence that North Korean officials have been involved in the illegal drugs trade. (Sky News) The shutdown of the United States Federal Aviation Administration will end August 8th. (Washington Post)
Law and crime

A judge rules that Donald Rumsfeld can be sued personally for damages by a U.S. Army veteran in his 50s who says he was imprisoned unjustly and tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq. (Huffington Post) Heather Mills claims that a Mirror Group journalist admitted hacking into her phone and listening to a message from then-boyfriend Paul McCartney - Piers Morgan has admitted to hearing it although he was not the journalist involved. (BBC) The Virginia Tech campus, site of an April 2007 mass shooting, goes on lockdown as a precaution after reports of a man, possibly armed with a gun, on or near the campus were made by teenagers attending a camp there. [1]
Politics
Nelson Jobim resigns as the Minister of Defence in Brazil after making critical remarks about the government of President Dilma Rousseff and fellow Ministers - he is replaced by Celso Amorim. (Wall Street Journal) The British Government launches a new e-petition website to encourage the public to prompt parliamentary debate on topics they feel are important. Several petitions concern proposals for and against restoring the death penalty, last used in the UK in 1964.(BBC) (BBC) Sport In American football, players in the US National Football League ratify a new collective bargaining agreement including provisions for tests for human growth hormone. (New York Times)
5 August 2011 (Friday)

2011 Syrian uprising: Turkey confirms it has seized an Iranian arms shipment to Syria. (Today's Zaman) Tens of thousands of people again protest across the country, amid a government crackdown. (BBC)
2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels claim that a NATO airstrike has killed Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son Khamis but this is later denied. (Al Jazeera) (MSNBC) (Reuters) Meng Jianzhu, the Minister for Public Security in the People's Republic of China, orders a clampdown in Xinjiang following recent unrest. (AP via Washington Post) Burmese state media say rebels in the northeast of the country killed seven workers from a Chinese-backed hydroelectric power project. (Straits Times)

Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue falls from Europe and the United States. (SBS) (BBC) The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency downgrades the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA+ with a negative outlook. (Reuters) (AP via Atlanta JournalConstitution)
Disasters and accidents

A bus in Ivory Coast plunges into the capital Abidjan's lagoon, killing 12 people. (Reuters) Typhoon Muifa: Typhoon Muifa approaches the Japanese island of Okinawa causing localised flooding, cancellation of flights to and from Naha International Airport and 30,000 homes to lose power. (Stars and Stripes) The People's Republic of China warns residents of Zhejiang province and Shanghai to prepare for the arrival of Typhoon Muifa tomorrow or Sunday, which is expected to be one of the most powerful storms to hit China in recent years. (China Daily)
UNICEF calls on Australia not to send 18 asylum seekers who are allegedly unaccompanied minors to Malaysia as part of a people swap. (AFP via Google News) (AAP via SBS News)
Politics
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine, and leader of the most numerous opposition party Yulia Tymoshenko is arrested in Kiev. (Kyiv Post) Philippine President Benigno Aquino III meets with rebel Moro Islamic Liberation Front leader Al Haj Murad Ibrahim in Tokyo. (Philippine Inquirer) (Radio Australia) Yingluck Shinawatra is officially elected as the Prime Minister of Thailand by the parliament. (Reuters) Former Deputy Prime Minister of Poland Andrzej Lepper is found dead in what police suspect is a suicide by hanging. (WBJ) (The Telegraph)
6 August 2011 (Saturday)

2011 Syrian uprising: The Gulf Co-operation Council urges an end to the "bloodshed" in Syria, and calls for reforms. (Al Arabiya) The Islamist al-Shabaab rebels in Somalia pull out of the capital Mogadishu. (BBC) Police in Saudi Arabia shoot dead a gunman who fired at the palace of Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud in Jeddah. (Al Jazeera) A NATO Chinook helicopter crashes in the Sayd Abad district of Afghanistan's Wardak province after being shot down by the Taliban with 37 deaths. (Dawn) (New York Times) At least 20 of the U.S. Navy SEALs killed in the attack were members of SEAL Team Six, the unit that carried out the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. The Associated Press and CNN later reported that none of the unit members that participated in the raid were involved. (AP)
Law and crime

English rioters set police cars on fire on the High Road in the London suburb of Tottenham after Metropolitan Police shot Mark Duggan on Thursday. (BBC) Disasters and accidents 500,000 people are evacuated in eastern China as Typhoon Muifa approaches. (Channel NewsAsia
Asylum seekers at the Christmas Island Immigration Reception and Processing Centre off the Indian Ocean coast of Western Australia start a hunger strike in protest at their deportation to Malaysia. (The West Australian)
Culture
Ilya Shikshin won the European Go Championship
7 August 2011 (Sunday)

2011 Syrian uprising: The Syrian army attacks the city of Deir ez-Zor according to opposition activists. (Al Jazeera) (BBC) The Arab League calls on Syrian authorities to end the violence against civilians. (Kuwait News Agency) (Emirates 24/7)
Saudi Arabia withdraws its ambassador to Syria in protest at the violence. (BBC) (Al Jazeera) 2011 Yemeni uprising: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh leaves hospital in Saudi Arabia after injuries sustained during the ongoing uprising. (CNN) 2011 Libyan civil war: Rebels report more gains south of the capital Tripoli. (Reuters) 2011 Bahraini uprising: Two opposition MPs are released from prison. (Al-Masry AlYoum) Fighting erupts in the Somali capital Mogadishu a day after al Shabaab rebels had reportedly left the city. (Reuters) Australian French Resistance leader Nancy Wake dies in London at the age of 98. (Sydney Daily Telegraph)
Disasters and accidents

One person is killed and six are missing after a landslide in eastern Malaysia. (Xinhua)
Law and crime

2011 London riots The Metropolitan Police Service restores order in Tottenham, north London, after a riot on Saturday night in which twenty-six police officers were injured. (AFP via Hindustan Times) (BBC) Outbreaks of looting and civil disorder are reported in a number of areas including Hackney, Brixton and Walthamstow. (The Guardian) (The Telegraph) Nepal bans smoking in public places. (Straits Times)
Science and technology

The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, the longest guided busway in the world, opens after years of delays. (BBC)

2011 Syrian uprising The Syrian opposition reports that the Army has entered the town of Maarat an-Numan. (Al Jazeera) Ban Ki-moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, again warns the President of Syria Bashar al-Assad to stop violence against civilians. (Ynet) The website of the Ministry of Defense of Syria is taken over by Anonymous. (Huffington Post)
Kuwait and Bahrain recall their ambassadors to Syria in protest of the violence, a day after Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador. (Gulf News) (Daily Star Lebanon) Syria rejects a statement by the Gulf Cooperation Council condemning its crackdown on protests. (Syrian Arab News Agency) 2011 Libyan civil war: Fighting continues on the eastern and western fronts. (Al Jazeera) The Royal Navy appoints its first female war ship commander; Lieutenant Commander Sarah West, 39, will take command of HMS Portland in April 2012. (BBC)

Stock markets in Asia, Australia, and the United States fall further after the credit rating of the United States is downgraded with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling by over 634 points, 5.55%. (Market Watch) (AAP via SBS) (Herald Sun) (Bloomberg) (USA Today) (News Limited) Rice futures trading on the Tokyo Grain Exchange is suspended following fears that the Japanese crop has been contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. (Bloomberg).
Disasters
Seven people are killed in a landslide in Malaysia's Cameron Highlands. (Straits Times) More than 100,000 people have been evacuated from China's Shandong Province as former Typhoon Muifa travels along the eastern coast as a tropical storm. (Xinhua)
Law and crime

The High Court of Australia grants an injunction against the removal of asylum seekers to Malaysia until a full hearing later this month. (ABC News) 2011 London riots: More than 215 people have been arrested in London, England since the riots began. (AFP via Herald-Sun) (Belfast Telegraph) Fresh violence breaks out in Hackney, Lewisham, Peckham, Croydon and several other areas of London as Home Secretary Theresa May meets with police chiefs to discuss the crisis. (BBC) London Mayor Boris Johnson says he will return early from his family holiday on Tuesday to deal with the riots. (The Telegraph) British Prime Minister David Cameron returns home early to chair a meeting of the COBRA Committee. (Daily Mail) Unrest breaks out in Birmingham City Centre and Liverpool. (BBC) (BBC)
Politics and elections

Mike Rann, the Premier of the Australian state of South Australia, announces that he will be resigning on October 20 to be replaced by Education Minister Jay Weatherill. (Herald Sun)
9 August 2011 (Tuesday)

Arts and culture
Australians fill out the 2011 Australian census. (ABC News Australia)

August 2011 stock markets fall The Australian Commonwealth and Westpac banks cut fixed home loan rates. (News Limited) (Sydney Morning Herald) (Market Watch) (Reuters) South Korea's financial authorities promise to take action to stabilise markets as stocks on the Korea Exchange continue to fall. (Yonhap) The Australian and New Zealand dollars continue to fall as investors seek security with the Aussie dollar falling below parity. (Bloomberg) The Dow Jones Industrial Average on the New York Stock Exchange as world stock markets recover after recent falls. (Wall Street Journal) The U.S. Federal Reserve announces it will keep interest rates at "exceptionally low levels" at least through mid 2013, though it makes no commitment for further quantitative easing. (Reuters)
Disasters
Tropical Storm Mufia At least four people are dead and two missing after former Typhoon Muifa hits South Korea - 600 homes had earlier been destroyed in the People's Republic of China. (Chosun Ilbo) (AFP via Google News) At least ten people are reported to have died in North Korea. (CNN)
Law and crime

English riots: Rioting continues in London with lawlessness spreading to other English cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham. (BBC), (The Australian) The Prime Minister David Cameron returns to Britain to chair an emergency meeting on the crisis and later recalls Parliament on Thursday. (BBC) (BBC) Police arrest 334 people and charge 69 after last night's riots. (Al-Jazeera) The Football Association calls off a friendly match between the England and Netherlands national teams. (The Guardian)
The far-right English Defense League says it will send its members onto the streets to quell riots. (AP via Houston Chronicle) Warren Jeffs, former leader of the FLDS Church and formerly on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, is sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years for a conviction on child sexual assault charges. (CNN)

Voters in some parts of the US state of Wisconsin go to the polls for recall elections for six Republican Party State Senators with Republicans retaining four of the six seats and their majority in the chamber. (The New York Times), (Bloomberg) Penny Wong, the first openly gay member of the Australian Cabinet, announces that her partner will be having a baby. (Adelaide Advertiser)
10 August 2011 (Wednesday)

The People's Republic of China's first aircraft carrier, the refitted Soviet aircraft carrier Varyag, commences its first sea trial under the Chinese flag. (Bloomberg) (Reuters) Korean Peninsula: The Yonhap news agency reports that sources have advised them that North Korea is plotting to assassinate Kim Kwan-jin, currently South Korea's defence minister. (Yonhap News) North and South Korea exchange artillery fire near Yeonpyeong Island. (Bloomberg) A US drone missile attack kills at least 18 people in Pakistan's North Waziristan district. (Dawn)
Arts and culture

The south ridge of Aoraki / Mount Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain, is renamed Hillary Ridge after Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to conquer Mount Everest. (Reuters)

Stock markets in Asia and Australia continue to rebound after the United States Federal Reserve promises to keep interest rates near zero for two years. (CNBC)
The trade surplus of the People's Republic of China rises to US$31.5 billion in July, the highest level in two years. (Bloomberg) Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority gives Tiger Airways the all clear to resume operations after a six-week suspension for safety violations. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Law and crime

Australian crime figure Judy Moran is sentenced to 26 years in jail for her part in the murder of Des "Tuppence" Moran in Melbourne with the actual murderer Geoffrey Armour also sentenced to 26 years. (Sydney Morning Herald) England riots: Rioting hits other English cities including Manchester, Salford, Liverpool, Nottingham and Birmingham, though London is largely quiet. (BBC) The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, holds another cabinet meeting to discuss responses to the riots with police authorised to use water cannon and rubber bullets. (CNN) (The Guardian) Police from Scotland are sent to England to help combat riots and disorder. (BBC) News International phone hacking scandal Former News of the World news editor Greg Miskiw is arrested, then later bailed as the investigation into phone-hacking continues. (BBC)
11 August 2011 (Thursday)

Karen Drambjan, a left-wing Estonian lawyer, storms the Defense Ministry in Tallinn and takes two hostages, but is killed when special police forces storm the building. (RT) At least five people including four police officers are killed after a bomb explodes near a police van in the Pakistani city of Peshawar. (BBC)

August 2011 stock markets fall and rebound Stock markets in Asia and Australia fall on the back of a sharp decline in Wednesday's trading on the New York Stock Exchange. (MarketWatch) (MarketWatch) The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 423.37 points, the fourth-straight day U.S. stocks have changed by over 400 points. The market dropped on Monday and Wednesday, and registered increases Tuesday and today. (Hartford Courant)
Disasters
The City Council in the New Zealand city of Christchurch announces plans to rebuild its central business district after the recent earthquake. (TV New Zealand)
Final approval is given for the building of 1,600 Israeli settler homes in disputed East Jerusalem by Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai despite a diplomatic rebuke Tuesday from the United States over earlier construction plans. (BBC) (Toronto Globe and Mail)
Law and crime

Umar Patek, a key suspect in the 2002 Bali bombings, faces trial on terrorism charges in Jakarta after being extradicted from Pakistan to Indonesia. (AP via News Limited)

The Parliament of the United Kingdom comes back from its summer break to debate the 2011 England riots. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald) The Philippine Senate Electoral Tribunal proclaims Aquilino Pimentel III as the winner of the 2007 election days after Juan Miguel Zubiri resigned due to alleged electoral fraud. (BBC News)
12 August 2011 (Friday)

Two bombers kill themselves in an attempted attack in the Philippines city of Kidapawan in Cotabato province. (Philippines Star) 2011 Syrian uprising: Massive protests are planned against the President Bashar alAssad, after recent raids by the Army. (Al Arabiya)

Chinese Bullet trains on the BeijingShanghai High-Speed Railway are withdrawn and all sections of track are inspected following a recent crash. (Wall Street Journal)
Law and crime

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit strikes down the health insurance mandate of President Barack Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (AP via Washington Post)
Sport
In rugby league, Darren Lockyer of the Brisbane Broncos plays his 350th match in first grade setting a new record for the National Rugby League. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Disasters
A passenger train derails at Baby, Piotrkw County, Poland. One passenger is killed and 45 are injured. (BBC)
13 August 2011 (Saturday)

Disasters
Stage rigging collapses at the Indiana State Fair, killing at least five and injuring dozens of fans of the musical group Sugarland and singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles. (CNN) The Thomson and Mitchell rivers flood in the Gippsland region of the Australian state of Victoria. (ABC News Australia) Law and crime 2011 England riots Two people are charged with the murder of three men who were hit by a car in Birmingham as they tried to protect their property from looters. (BBC) British Prime Minister David Cameron hires so-called U.S. supercop Bill Bratton to advise the British Government on dealing with gang-related violence. (BBC)

The first electoral contest of the 2012 United States Presidential election takes place in the Iowa town of Ames with the Ames Straw Poll for Republican Party candidates with Michele Bachmann emerging as the winner. (AP via Yahoo! News) (Washington Post)
14 August 2011 (Sunday)

In the 2011 Syrian uprising, the Syrian Navy's gunboats fired heavy machine guns targeted waterfront districts in Latakia, as ground troops and security agents backed by armor stormed several neighborhoods. Up to 26 people were killed. (Haaretz)(Ynet News) Iran has confirmed the arrest of the second-in-command of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Murat Karaylan, by the country's intelligence agency. (PressTV)
Anti-Muammar Gaddafi rebels make major progress in the 2011 Libyan civil war, advancing into Az Zawiyah, only 50 km west of the capital city, Tripoli. (Reuters)
Law and crime

Egypt activist, Asmaa Mahfouz, is charged with inciting violence in what seems to be a clear violation of human rights. (Al-Ahram) (Almasry Alyoum) (The Associated Press) (The Washington Post) Six people are killed in a stabbing incident on the Channel Island of Jersey (BBC)
Politics
Former Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty announces the end of his campaign for the Republican Party nomination in the 2012 United States presidential election following a poor result in the Ames Straw Poll. (Washington Post)
Sport
American golfer Keegan Bradley wins the United States 2011 PGA Championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club, defeating Jason Dufner in a playoff. (Atlanta Journal Constitution), (CBS Sports)

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi gives a live address to the nation after rebels claim a number of victories in the 2011 Libyan uprising. (CNN)

Japan's economy shrinks by 0.3% in the April-June quarter confirming the country is in a recession caused in part by the 2011 Thoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent FuPortal:Featured content
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Featured list: List of notable brain tumor patients

A brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells within the brain or inside the skull, and can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign). Just over half of all primary brain tumors are malignant; the rest are benign, though they may still be life-threatening. In the
US in 2000, survivors of benign primary brain tumors outnumbered those who had cancerous primary brain tumors by approximately 4:1. Metastatic brain cancer is over six times more common than primary brain cancer, as it occurs in about 1030% of all people with cancer.[1] This is a list of notable people who have had a primary or metastatic brain tumor (either benign or malignant) at some time in their lives, as confirmed by public information. Tumor type and survival duration are listed where the information is known. Blank spaces in these columns appear where precise information has not been released to the public. Medicine does not designate most long-term survivors as cured.
Acting
1. Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Tony Anholt 19412002 Actor with various television credits, including Space: 1999, The Protectors and Howards' Way [2] 2. Sam Bottoms 19552008 Actor who played in the movies Apocalypse Now and The Last Picture Show Glioblastoma multiforme [3] 3. Patrick Cargill 19181996 British film and television actor who had been in illhealth since being treated for a brain tumor and died a year later. Initially, his death was blamed on a hit-and-run accident. [4] 4. Bert Convy 19331991 Stage, film and television actor/host 15 months[5] 5. Ross Davidson 19492006 Actor who played Andy O'Brien in the BBC soap opera EastEnders Glioblastoma multiforme 20 months [6] 6. Sandy Duncan 1946 Tony Awardnominated Broadway actor, television actress 1971 [7] 7. Linda Gary 19441995 Voice artist for Scooby-Doo and other animated series [8] 8. Brian Glover 19341997 Actor, former professional wrestler and teacher [9] 9. Richard Greene 19181985 Actor who appeared in more than 40 movies and in the British television series The Adventures of Robin Hood 3 years [10] 10. Susan Hayward 19171975 Academy Awardwinning film actress 2 years [11] 11. Richard Jordan 19381993 Actor of stage, screen and film [12] 12. Martin Kemp 1961 Actor and former pop musician who is in the band Spandau Ballet 1995 [13] 13. Arthur Kennedy 19141990 Stage and film actor; Tony Award winner [14] 14. Lois Kibbee 19221993 Actress who played Geraldine Weldon Whitney Saxon on the television soap opera The Edge of Night [15]
15. Eugene Gordon Lee 19332005 Child actor who played Porky in the Our Gang (Little Rascals) comedies Metastatic tumor [16] 16. Katherine Locke 19101995 Broadway actress in the late 1930s [17] 17. Meredith MacRae 19442000 Television actress and host [18] 18. Victor Maddern 19261993 Supporting actor on film [19] 19. Joseph Maher 19331998 Irish-born stage actor, film and television character actor [20] 20. Irish McCalla 19282002 Film and television actress, eponymous actor in the 1950s television series Sheena, Queen of the Jungle Less than 18 months [21] 21. Buster Merryfield 19201999 Actor who played Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy Only Fools and Horses [22] 22. Bueno de Mesquita 19182005 Comedian, actor and stage artist, known for his ability to make funny faces; suffered from lung cancer (probable metastasis) [23] 23. Greg Morris 19331996 African American television actor (Mission: Impossible series) [24] 24. Pola Negri 18941987 Polish-American silent movie actress, played numerous femme fatale roles. Refused treatment; died of pneumonia. 2 years [25] 25. Jerry Paris 19251986 Actor and director; played Jerry Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show [26] 26. Pat Paulsen 19271997 Comedian who featured in the Smothers Brothers television show in the 1960s [27] 27. Slim Pickens 19191983 Rodeo clown turned film actor (Dr. Strangelove) [28][29] 28. Kate Reid 19301993 Canadian actress of stage, film and television [30] 29. Mark Ruffalo 1967 American film actor. The operation to remove the benign tumor caused him temporary partial paralysis. Acoustic neuroma 2001 [31] 30. Irene Ryan c. 19021973 "Granny" from The Beverly Hillbillies. She was never told of her tumor, and died after suffering a stroke onstage while performing in Pippin on her Broadway debut. [32] 31. Zachary Scott 19141965 American film actor; specialized in villains (Mildred Pierce) [33][34] 32. Alexis Smith 19211993 Canadian-born film, stage, musical theatre and television actress [35] 33. Michelle Stafford 1965 Actress, played Phyllis Summers Abbott Newman on the soap opera The Young and the Restless 1985 [36] 34. Werner Stocker 19551993 Bavarian Film Award (Bayerischer Filmpreis) for Best Young Actors shared with Dana Vvrov for Herbstmilch; featured role in television's Highlander: The Series [37]
35. Kinuyo Tanaka 19101977 Japanese film actress and director [38] 36. Anya Taranda 19151970 Model, showgirl, actress and wife of songwriter Harold Arlen [39] 37. Elizabeth Taylor 19322011 Academy Awardwinning actor, star of numerous films Meningioma 19972011 [40] 38. Bobby Van 19281980 Broadway musician and actor [41] 39. Henry Victor 18921945 Character actor (played "Hercules") in the 1932 film, Freaks [42][43] 40. Bill Williams 19151992 Movie actor who played Kit Carson in the 1950s TV series Adventures of Kit Carson [44] 41. Jeff Winkless 19412006 Composer, television and voice actor [45]
Business
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. James Batten 1936?1995 Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Knight-Ridder publishing. 1 year [46] 2. Raymond Bonham Carter 19292004 Banker who became a director of S. G. Warburg & Co. and the father of actress Helena Bonham Carter. He became quadriplegic and partially blind after an operation to remove a non-cancerous brain tumor. 25 years [47] 3. Reginald Lewis 19421993 CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings Inc, the first African-American-run company to have over $1 billion in annual sales. [48] 4. Gerry Pencer 19451998 Chief executive officer of Cott Beverages. Pencer and his family became significant philanthropists of brain tumor research and medicine. Glioblastoma multiforme 8 months [49] 5. Rene Rivkin 19442005 Stockbroker convicted for insider trading Multiple meningioma [50] 6. Dawn Steel 19461997 First female top executive of a major Hollywood studio 20 months [51] 7. Preston Robert Tisch 19262005 Businessman; former Postmaster General and half-owner of the New York Giants [52]
Film, television, and radio

Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Alan Berg 19341984 Liberal talk radio host in Denver, Colorado who broadcast his program on KOA. He was murdered in 1984; his story formed the basis of the Oliver Stone film Talk Radio. 8 years [53] 2. Jack Brickhouse 19161998 Sports broadcast announcer 6 months[54]
3. Tom Cheek 19392005 Radio broadcaster who announced Major League Baseball games for the Toronto Blue Jays 15 months [55][56] 4. Dan Curtis 19282006 Emmy Awardwinning director and producer of television and film 4 months [57] 5. Bob Friend 19382008 Renowned British journalist and TV anchor with BBC and News Corporation. [58][59] 6. Chuck Howard 19331996 Former producer at ABC Sports and winner of 11 Emmy Awards [60] 7. Ted Husing 19011962 Pioneer radio sportscaster 6 years [61] 8. Eleanor Mondale 1960 Cable television host on the E! network; daughter of former United States Vice President Walter Mondale Glioma with astrocytoma cells June 2005 [62] 9. Andrew Olle 19471995 Presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Glioblastoma multiforme 1 week [63] 10. Judd Rose 19552000 Emmy Awardwinning television news reporter, co-anchor of CNN Newsstand Astrocytoma About 6 years [64] 11. Gene Siskel 19461999 Film critic for the Chicago Tribune; television partner of fellow critic Roger Ebert Less than 1 year [24] 12. Julia Somerville 1947 Television news anchor and reporter who has worked for BBC News and ITN 1992 [65] 13. Franois Truffaut 19321984 Film director with over 25 films to his credit, including The 400 Blows [66] 14. Stan Zemanek 19472007 Australian radio broadcaster and television personality; presented a night-time show on the radio station 2UE Glioblastoma multiforme 15 months [67]
Military
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Jaime Milans del Bosch 19151997 Lieutenant General in the Spanish Army who was dismissed in 1981 for his role in the failed coup d'tat of 23 February 1981 (23-F) [68] 2. Bob Braham 19201974 One of the most highly decorated airman of the Royal Air Force in World War II [69] 3. William S. Donaldson19452001 United States Naval Aviator; founder of the Associated Retired Aviation Professionals (ARAP); a critic of the U.S. government's TWA flight 800 investigation 7 months [70][71] 4. Seyni Kountch 19311987 Nigerien military officer who led a 1974 coup d'tat that deposed the government of Niger's first president, Hamani Diori; ruled the country as military head of state from 1974 to 1987 [72]
5. Thomas W. Steed 19041973 Military officer in the United States Army Air Corps and United States Air Force. During World War II, he commanded the 456th Bomb Group (Heavy) throughout its combat service. Meningioma [73] 6. Leonard Wood 18601927 Physician who served as the Chief of Staff of the United States Army and Governor General of the PhilippinesParasagittal meningioma [74]
Miscellaneous
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Jon Bannenberg 19292002 Yacht designer. [75] 2. Ben Bowen 20022005 Huntington, West Virginia child who attracted media attention and fundraising efforts ATRT 1 year [76] 3. Margaret Brown 18671932 Socialite, philanthropist, and activist; survivor of the Titanic disaster; portrayed in the 1964 film The Unsinkable Molly Brown and the 1997 film Titanic [77] 4. Johnnie Cochran 19372005 Defense attorney, best known for being a member of the "Dream Team", during the infamous O.J. Simpson murder trial. Also defense attorney for the 1993 Michael Jackson child molestation case. Jackson settled the case with the accusing family. 1 year [78] 5. Robert W. Funk 19262005 Academic theologian; author and founder of the Jesus Seminar [79] 6. Henry Kock 19522005 Horticulturist at the University of Guelph Arboretum 18 months [80] 7. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent 19061968 Member of the British Royal Family [81] 8. Marshall McLuhan 19111980 Communications theorist and educator 11 years [82] 9. Enric Miralles 19552000 Architect whose works include the Scottish Parliament Building [83] 10. John Joseph O'Connor 19202000 Eleventh bishop (eighth archbishop) of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York [84] 11. Alexandra Sestak 2002 Daughter of Joe & Susan Clark Sestak [85] 12. Deke Slayton 19241993 One of the seven Mercury Seven astronauts [86] 13. Craig Shergold 1979 Former brain cancer patient who received more than 33 million greeting cards, earning him a place in the Guinness Book of Records. He recovered fully. 1989 [87] 14. Doris Tate 19241992 Activist in the victims' rights movement; mother of murder victim Sharon Tate Metastatic tumor [88] 15. Charles Whitman 19411966 Ascended the University of Texas at Austin's 27-story tower in 1966, and shot passersby in the city and on the campus
below before being shot dead by Austin Police. Tumor found on autopsy. [89] 16. Richard Wild 19121978 Former Chief Justice of New Zealand (19661978) [90] 17. Mary Hayward Weir 19151968 Steel heiress and socialite [91] 18. Frank Wills 19482000 Security guard who uncovered the break-in that led to the Watergate scandal [92]
Music
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Luther Allison 19391997 Blues guitarist Metastatic tumor Less than 1 year [93] 2. William "Cat" Anderson 19161981 A jazz trumpeter who played with Duke Ellington's orchestra [94] 3. Arrow (Alphonsus Cassell) 19492010 Montserrat soca singer-songwriter [95] 4. David M. Bailey 19662010 Contemporary Christian songwriter and musician Glioblastoma July 1996 October 2010 [96] 5. Bill Black 19261965 Rock and roll bass player; recorded with Elvis Presley during 19541958 [97] 6. Davey von Bohlen 1975 Musician and songwriter Meningioma 2000 [98] 7. Ray Bumatai 19522005 Musician, comedian and voice actor Glioblastoma 3 years [99] 8. Gregg Burge 19571998 Tap dancer and choreographer [100] 9. A. J. Croce 1971 Singer-songwriter; son of singer-songwriter Jim Croce 1975 [101] 10. Celia Cruz 19252003 Cuban salsa singer, Afro-Cuban music [102] 11. Dia DiCristino1980 Opera and Jazz singer; starred in the movie The Year of The Cyst, which was about her eleven brain surgeries. 2002 [103] 12. William Finn 1952 Tony Awardwinning Broadway songwriter; wrote the show A New Brain, which was about his experiences. 1992 [104] 13. Sergio Franchi19261990 Italian-American tenor [105] [106] 14. Marie Fredriksson 1958 Lead singer of the Swedish pop duo Roxette 2002 [107] 15. George Gershwin 18981937 Jazz and classical music composer; cowriter of stage musicals and film scores Glioblastoma multiforme 1 month [108] 16. Lou Gramm 1950 Rock music vocalist and songwriter, lead vocalist for Foreigner 1996 [109]
17. Bill Haley 19251981 Leader of one of the first rock and roll bands, The Comets 2 years [110][111] 18. George Harrison 19432001 Lead guitarist of the Beatles Metastatic tumor [112] 19. Simon Jeffes 19491997 Guitarist, composer and arranger; member of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra Less than 2 years [113] 20. Barney Kessel 19232004 Jazz guitarist who played with Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Elvis Presley, and The Beach Boys [114] 21. Otto Klemperer 18851973 Conductor; father of actor Werner Klemperer 40 years [115] 22. John Loder 19462005 Sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios. Less than 2 years [116] 23. John Mack 19262006 Principal oboist with the Cleveland Orchestra [117] 24. Brian MacLeod 19521992 Musician, songwriter and music producer; member of the bands Chilliwack and The Headpins Less than 3 years [118] 25. Bob Marley 19451981 Reggae king Metastatic tumor [24] 26. Johnny Mercer 19091976 Songwriter and lyricist [119] 27. Ethel Merman 19081984 Broadway singer and actress Glioblastoma multiforme 10 months [120][121] 28. Robert Moog 19342005 Inventor of the modern music synthesizer Glioblastoma multiforme [122] 29. Ted Mulry 19472001 Singer, songwriter and musician who formed the band Ted Mulry Gang (TMG). [123] 30. James Murphy1967 Heavy metal guitarist who played in several groups Pituitary macro-adenoma 2001 [124] 31. Wayne Osmond 1951 Singer, second oldest of the performing Osmond brothers 1994 [125] 32. Renato Pagliari 19402009 Italian-born British singer famous for the 1982 Christmas number-one Save Your Love 5 months [126] [127] 33. Junior Parker 19321971 Blues singer [128] 34. Frank Patterson 19382000 Classically trained Irish tenor [129][130] 35. Lucia Popp 19391993 Operatic soprano [131][132] 36. Louis Prima 19101978 Entertainer, singer, actor, and trumpeter known as the "King of the Swingers". He never recovered from an operation to remove a benign brain-stem tumor, which left him in a coma for nearly three years. [133] 37. Rainer Ptacek 19511997 Guitarist, singer and songwriter [134] 38. Lou Rawls 19332006 Soul, jazz, and blues singer; philanthropist Metastatic tumor 7 months [135]
39. Buddy Rich 19171987 Jazz drummer and bandleader [136] 40. Chuck Schuldiner 19672001 Former guitarist and singer for the band Death; former guitarist for Control Denied; influential figure in the development of death metal Pontine glioma 2 years [137] 41. Sam Sneed 1968 A record producer and rapper 1999 [138] 42. Tammi Terrell 19451970 Soul/R&B/Motown Singer, duettist with Marvin Gaye on "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and other hit singles. Also toured with James Brown. Acorn-sized astrocytoma in thalamus 2 years, 5 months. [139] 43. Russell Watson 1966 English tenor who has released popular albums of operatic-style songs 2006 [140] 44. Sandy West 19592006 Musician, singer-songwriter and drummer Metastatic lung cancer [141] 45. Kai Winding 19221983 Trombonist and jazz composer [142][143] 46. Webster Young 19322003 Jazz trumpeter and cornetist. [144]
Politics and government

Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Lee Atwater 19511991 Chairman of the United States Republican National Committee Glioblastoma multiforme 1 year [145] 2. William J. Casey 19131987 Director of the Central Intelligence Agency 5 months [146] 3. Chakufwa Chihana 19392006 Trade unionist and politician 1 month [147] 4. Alan Clark 19281999 British Conservative politician, historian and diarist [148] 5. Clair Engle 19111964 United States senator from California. Late in his illness, he broke a filibuster and helped pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Wheelchair-bound and no longer able to speak, he raised his hand to his eye to signal his vote ("aye"). 1 year [149][150] 6. Wayne Goss 1951 Former Premier of Queensland, Australia 1997 [151] 7. Paul B. Henry 19421993 Evangelical Christian, professor of political science, and politician [152] 8. David Hermelin 19362000 United States Ambassador to Norway 1 year [153] 9. Ted Kennedy 19322009 United States Senator Glioblastoma multiforme 15 months [154] 10. Peter Law 19482006 Welsh politician, independent Member of Parliament (MP) and AM. [155] 11. Clare Boothe Luce 19031987 American politician and diplomat; an editor, playwright, social activist and journalist [156][157]
12. Jean-Philippe Maitre 19492006 Politician and former President of the Swiss National Council [158] 13. Gladys Marn 19412005 Political activist and former president of the Communist Party of Chile Glioblastoma multiforme [159][160] 14. Robert Evander McNair 19232007 Governor of South Carolina 50 days [161] 15. Lennart Meri 19292006 President of Estonia 7 months [162] 16. Mo Mowlam 19492005 Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 7 years [163] 17. Robert Novak 19312009 Political pundit 1 year [164] 18. Bob O'Connor 19442006 Mayor of Pittsburgh Central nervous system (CNS) lymphoma [165] 19. Po Pico 18011894 Last Mexican governor of California; suffered from Acromegaly between at least 1847 to 1858, followed by selective pituitary tumor apoplexy with reversal of all tumor manifestations and survival to 1894 Growth hormonesecreting pituitary adenoma with apoplexy 1847 1894 [166] 20. Arlen Specter 1930 U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1993 [167] 21. Mike Synar 19501996 U.S. Representative from Oklahoma Glioblastoma multiforme 5 months [24] 22. Frank Tejeda 19461997 United States House of Representatives from Texas 1 year [168] 23. Joop den Uyl 19191987 Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977, as a member of the social democratic Dutch Labour Party (PvdA). [169][170]
Science
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Max Abraham 18751922 Physicist and contemporary of Einstein and Lorentz [171] 2. Maxwell Scott Anderson 19562010 Psychologist, activist, documentary filmmaker and contemporary of Robert EadsGlioma Less than 1 month [172][173] 3. William Bright 19282006 Linguist who specialized in Native American and South Asian languages and descriptive linguistics; father of Susie Bright [174] 4. douard Brissaud 18521909 A physician and pathologist. his tumor was unsuccessfully operated on by Sir Victor Horsley. [175][176] 5. Thomas Donaldson 19452006 Mathematician and cryonics advocate [177][178] 6. Rhodes Fairbridge 19142006 Geologist and expert on climate change [179] 7. Paul Feyerabend 19241994 Philosopher of science Less than 1 year [180]
8. Thor Heyerdahl 19142002 Marine biologist who embarked on KonTiki expedition and other journeys that reproduced ancient technology and demonstrated the feasibility of ancient sea migrations. Less than 1 year [181] 9. J. Allen Hynek 19101986 Astronomer, professor, and ufologist [182] 10. Norman Levinson 19121975 Mathematician [183][184] 11. Chris O'Brien 19522009 Oncologist, surgeon, participant in Australian reality television programme RPA glioblastoma multiforme 2 12 years [185] 12. John Vlissides 19612005 Software scientist specialising in object oriented technology, design patterns and software modelling [186] 13. Aleksandr Zinovyev 19222006 Logician, sociologist, writer of Russian literature and satirist [187]
Sports
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Lyle Alzado 19491992 National Football League (NFL) football player; made public statements attributing his tumor to anabolic steroids, a claim not supported by medical research. CNS lymphoma [188] 2. Lance Armstrong 1971 Cycling champion who won the Tour de France seven consecutive times after diagnosis and treatment for testicular cancer that spread to his abdomen, lungs and brain Metastatic tumor 1996 [189] 3. Seve Ballesteros 19572011 Spanish golfer; winner of five major championships Oligoastrocytoma 20082011 [190][191] 4. Kevin Berry 19452006 Butterfly swimmer, Olympic gold medalist [192] 5. Angelo Bertelli 19211999 American football quarterback [193] 6. Bobby Bonds 19462003 Right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981, primarily with the San Francisco Giants; father of Barry Bonds [194] 7. Ken Brett 19482003 Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher; brother of Hall of Famer George Brett 6 years [195] 8. Jos Mara Buljubasich 1971 Argentine association football goalkeeper 2006 [196] 9. Richard Burns 19712005 Race car driver, Rally world champion Astrocytoma 2 years [197] 10. Matt Cappotelli 1979 Professional wrestler Astrocytoma 2006- [198] 11. Richard Chelimo 19722001 Track champion from Kenya; former 10,000 meter world record holder [199] 12. Maurice Colclough 19532006 Rugby player, part of England's Grand Slamwinning team in the 1980 Five Nations Championship [200]
13. Dan Duva 19511996 Boxing promoter behind more than 100 world championship bouts Primary brain tumor [201] 14. Josh Gibson 19111947 Negro League baseball player; home run hitter with the highest career batting average in league history 4 years [202] 15. Tim Gullikson 19511996 Champion doubles tennis player alongside his twin brother Tom; coach of Pete Sampras [203] 16. Scott Hamilton 1958 Figure skater and Olympic gold medalist Pituitary gland2004 [204] 17. John Hartson 1975 Professional footballer Metastatic tumor 2009 [189] 18. Craig "Ironhead" Heyward 19662006 American football running back who played in the NFL Chordoma 8 years [205] 19. Heiko Herrlich 1971 German association football player; Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Champions League and Intercontinental Cup winner Brain tumor 2000 [206] 20. Terry Hoeppner 19472007 Indiana University, Miami (Ohio) University head football coach 18 months (20052007) [207] 21. Dick Howser 19361987 MLB shortstop and manager 1 year [208] 22. Emlyn Hughes19472004 Association football player; European Cup winner of 1977; also known from the BBC television quiz show A Question of Sport 15 months [209] 23. Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie 19332006 English cricketer 4 months[210] 24. "Badger" Bob Johnson 19311991 Ice hockey coach, won the 1991 Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL) 2 months [211] 25. Walter Johnson 18871946 Right-handed pitcher in MLB; one of the first five members of the Hall of Fame [212][213] 26. Ruben Kruger 19702010 South African rugby union player; member of the Springboks team that won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, portrayed in the film Invictus 10 years [214] 27. Eric Liddell 19021945 Olympic gold medalist in track; portrayed in the film Chariots of Fire [215] 28. Reginald Lisowski 19262005 Professional wrestler; known as "The Crusher" [216] 29. Wayne Maki 19441973 Vancouver Canucks player in the NHL Less than 5 months [217][218] 30. Peter May 19291994 An English cricketer who played for Surrey, Cambridge University and England [219] 31. Martin McGrady 19462006 American Track and Field athlete, world record holder in the indoor 600 yard dash for 26 years 32. Frank Edward "Tug" McGraw 19442004 Major League Baseball pitcher; father of country music star Tim McGraw Glioblastoma multiforme 9 months [220] 33. Robert Mller 19802009 Professional (Deutsche Eishockey Liga) ice hockey goaltender. Glioblastoma multiforme 3 years [221]
34. Bobby Murcer 19462008 Major League Baseball player and broadcaster 19 months [222] 35. Johnny Oates 19462004 MLB catcher and manager Glioblastoma multiforme 3 years [223] 36. Kim Perrot 19671999 Basketball player on the Houston Comets of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) Metastatic (lung cancer) [224] 37. John Prentice 19262006 Former association football player; Scotland national football team manager [225] 38. Dan Quisenberry 19531998 MLB pitcher, mostly as a closer; pitched with "submarine" style 9 months [226] 39. Bobby Robson19332009 A former association football player and England national football team manager [227] 40. Glenn Roeder 1955 English association football manager and former player 2003 [228] 41. Pete Rozelle 19261996 NFL commissioner [229] 42. Wilma Rudolph 19401994 Olympic gold medalist in track 5 months [230] 43. Nick Sanborn 19351999 Automobile racer [231] 44. Robert Stone 19562005 A rugby league player and official who played for the St. George Dragons 17 months [232] 45. Earl Strom 19271994 A basketball referee for 29 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and for three years in the American Basketball Association (ABA) [233] 46. Fritz Von Erich 19291997 Wrestler and wrestling promoter of independent promotion World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW); patriarch of the Von Erich family [234] 47. John Vukovich 19472007 MLB infielder and third base coach 18 months [235] 48. Dick Wantz 19401965 Relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the California Angels 1 month [236]
Visual arts
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Kevyn Aucoin 19622002 Make-up artist and photographer Pituitary gland tumor [237] 2. Fred Conlon 19432005 Sculptor Glioblastoma 8 months [238] [239] 3. Arthur "Weegee" Fellig 18991968 Photographer and photojournalist; works include stark black-and-white street photography [240] 4. Eva Hesse 19361970 Abstract sculptor [241] 5. Philip Iverson 19652006 Expressionist painter [242] 6. Lynn Kohlman 19462008 Fashion model, photographer, and author Glioblastoma multiforme 20022008 [243][244]
7. Owen Merton 18871931 Post-Impressionist painter, primarily in watercolor landscapes and seascapes [245] 8. Ferdinand Preiss 18821943 Art deco sculptor who specialized in ivory and bronze [246] 9. Eero Saarinen 19101961 Architect whose work included the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri 11 days [247] 10. John Willie 19021962 Fetish photographer and bondage artist [248]
Writing
Name Life Comments Diagnosis Survival Reference 1. Barbara Albright 19552006 Author of food and knitting books [249] 2. Duygu Asena 19462006 Author and activist for women's rights 2 years [250] 3. Susan Bergman 19572006 Author of numerous books including the 1984 work Anonymity and unfinished novel Buried Life Glioblastoma multiforme 3 years [251] 4. Bebe Moore Campbell 19502006 Author whose books dealt with race and mental health issues [252] 5. Raymond Carver 19381988 Short-story writer and poet Metastatic tumor [253] 6. Hugh Cook 19562008 Author of fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness [254] 7. Carl Foreman 19141984 Screenwriter and film producer 6 to 9 months[255] 8. Robert Forward 19322002 Physicist and science fiction writer 4 months [256] 9. John Galsworthy 18671933 Nobel prizewinning novelist and playwright whose works include The Forsyte Saga [257] 10. Veronica Geng 19411997 Writer, humorist and former editor of The New Yorker 13 months [258] 11. Johnny Gunther 19291947 Teenage brain tumor patient, son of novelist John Gunther. His illness became the central theme of his father's book Death Be Not Proud. right parietal-occipital glioblastoma multiforme 15 months [259] 12. Frigyes Karinthy 18871938 Author, playwright, poet, journalist and translator [260] 13. Pat Kavanagh 19402008 British literary agent 5 weeks [261] 14. Stephen Knight 19511985 Author who was known for his books criticising the Freemasons. He started having seizures in 1977 and in 1980, agreed to take part in a BBC documentary TV program Horizon on epilepsy. The producers arranged for a brain scan, which showed up a tumor. This was removed
but returned in 1984 and despite further surgery he died in 1985. 5 years [262] 15. Lynda Lee-Potter 19352004 Columnist for the British newspaper Daily Mail [263] 16. Terence McKenna 19462000 Writer and counterculture figure Glioblastoma multiforme Less than 1 year [264] 17. William Vaughn Moody 18691910 Dramatist and poet [265] 18. Ivan Noble 19672005 BBC journalist and science writer who published columns about his experience with the illness; author of Like a Hole in the Head Glioblastoma multiforme 2 12 years [266][267] 19. Chaim Potok 19292002 Rabbi and author whose works included the 1967 novel The Chosen 2 years [268] 20. Timothy Reuter 19472002 Historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany [269] 21. David Shaw 19432005 Los Angeles Times journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 1991 Less than 3 months [270] 22. Charles Sheffield 19352002 Mathematician, physicist and science fiction writer 3 months [271] 23. Mary Shelley 17971851 Author of Frankenstein; wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley 46 days [272] 24. Lou Stathis 19521997 Writer, editor and critic 10 months [273] 25. Trumbull Stickney 18741904 Swiss-born American poet [274] 26. James Weinstein 19262005 Socialist historian and journalist; founder and publisher of In These Times [275]

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