James Hill
NEWS:July 07,2000
Baritone singer James Hill, of the prominent gospelgroup the Fairfield Four, died on Thursday here at Baptist Hospital of complications from diabetes. He was 83. Hill, a native of Bessemer, Ala., joined the Fairfield Four in 1946. The group, which had been formed in 1921, disbanded in 1950, and Hill and another member, Isaac Freeman, joined the Skylarks. Hill and Freeman rejoined the reunited Fairfield Four in 1980 and, since then, had performed and recorded with numerous country, gospel, rock and pop stars. Hill, who also helped run the Fairfield Four Funeral Home in Nashville in the 1940s and who was a sheriff's deputy and police officer here, also appeared in Robert Altman's film Nashville. The group toured with Lyle Lovett and was a mainstay at Nashville musical functions, wearing their trademark overalls with tuxedo shirts and jackets. They traveled widely, appearing at a salute to Johnny Cash in 1999 in New York. The group recently released the album The Fairfield Four and Friends — Live From Mountain Stage on Nashville's Blue Plate records. Friends appearing on the album are Kevin Welch, Elvis Costello, Lee Roy Parnell, Steve Earle and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. Funeral arrangements are pending. His list of survivors is to be announced. Freeman said remaining members of the group would meet to decide whether to continue.
Li Fuxiang
NEWS:May 12,2000
China Forex Chief Dead, BEIJING (Reuters) - Li Fuxiang, the head of China's foreign exchange regulatory body, died this week under mysterious circumstances, financial sources said on Friday. `He's dead,'' said one reliable source of the director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE). ``It's possibly related to something that happened before he took over at SAFE'' in October 1998, said the source, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity. Officials at Beijing No 304 Hospital, an elite military medical facility, said Li had checked in for treatment for diabetes on Monday. There was no official word on the cause of death but the hospital's morgue confirmed it had handled a SAFE official who leapt to his death on Wednesday. A morgue official declined to identify the man. A consultant affiliated with SAFE said the agency had summoned staff to a meeting on Thursday to explain Li's death, but SAFE's spokesman declined to comment on the case. There was no immediate confirmation of reports in the Hong Kong media and rumors in the Shanghai foreign exchange market and on Internet chat sites that it was Li, 47, who had committed suicide by leaping from an upper story of the hospital. The reports had no effect on the tightly-managed Chinese yuan. Asked about the reports Li had committed suicide, China's State Council Information Office, which speaks for the cabinet, said it was still seeking confirmation. Hong Kong's Ming Pao and the Hong Kong Economic Times newspapers said Li had leapt from the seventh floor of a hospital in Beijing on Wednesday night. The Ming Pao quoted unidentified sources and the Economic Times gave no sources for its report. The independent Ming Pao said rumors were circulating in Chinese financial markets that Li's suicide might be related to ''inappropriate activities'' at his office or stress at work. It said there was speculation Li was being investigated for ''economic activities,'' but gave no further details. Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily said Li had been posted to SAFE in 1996 and had won the favor of Premier Zhu Rongji for his grasp of forex issues. Li took over as SAFE director from Wu Xiaoling shortly after she had launched a nationwide crackdown on foreign exchange fraud designed to stem capital flight and ease downward pressure on the Chinese yuan during the Asian economic crisis. A fluent English speaker, Li had worked for the Bank of China, the country's main foreign exchange bank, in Singapore early in his career and later headed the bank's New York branch.
Nguyen Ngoc Tan
Vietnamese Journalist Nguyen Ngoc Tan Is Freed
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - A Vietnamese journalist who spent five years in jail for advocating human rights was released as part of a presidential amnesty for more than 12,000 inmates, a Paris-based media advocacy group said Thursday. Nguyen Ngoc Tan, 80, who went by his pen name Pham Thai, had been an activist in the Movement for the Unity of the People and Construction of Democracy, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement. He had pushed for press freedoms as a member of the underground group that advocated human rights and democracy in Vietnam. Tan was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to 11 years in prison for ``conspiring against the socialist power.'' He was released April 30 from Ham Tan labor camp, on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City. Reporters Without Borders welcomed Tan's release, saying it ``regrets it did not come sooner.'' Tan, who is suffering from
diabetes, rheumatism and lung infections, has returned to Ho Chi Minh City. His colleague, Nguyen Dinh Huy, remains as the last journalist jailed in the country, the group said. Last month, Vietnam pardoned 12,264 inmates in its largest amnesty ever to mark the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Vietnam repeatedly has said its prisoners include only lawbreakers, and that no one is in jail for dissident views. Human rights groups have estimated, though, that Vietnam holds at least 40 prisoners of conscience.
Charlie Park
NEWS:April 29,2000
WARREN, Ark. (AP) - Charlie Park, a veteran Arkansas broadcaster, died Thursday of complications from
diabetes and heart disease. He was 66. Park was news director of Crossett radio station KAGH for 20 years until retiring in March because of his illnesses. Born Nov. 3, 1933, in Flint, Mich., Park began his broadcasting career working with his father in Detroit. His wife, Carol Park, said her husband spent 48 years in the field, moving to Arkansas in 1979 to work for KAGH.
Phebe Robinson Jacobsen
NEWS:4-22-2000
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - Phebe Robinson Jacobsen, an archivist who helped ``Roots'' author Alex Haley determine that his ancestor Kunta Kinte landed here, died Wednesday of complications from diabetes. She was 78. Jacobsen and Haley began corresponding in 1967, after he asked her for help with his genealogical research. It was Jacobsen who dug up a Maryland Gazette advertisement from 1767 at the Maryland State Archives. The ad announced the arrival of the Lord Ligonier in Annapolis on Sept. 29, 1767. The ship carried ``a Cargo of Choice, Healthy Slaves,'' the ad said. Among them was Kunta Kinte, the inspiration for Haley's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 historical novel, which traced 10 generations of his family from Gambia to the United States. Through the course of research for the book, Jacobsen and Haley became close friends, said Chris Haley, associate director of research services at the archives and the late author's nephew. ``She would help give a sense of what life for African-Americans, free or enslaved, was like during Colonial times in Maryland,'' he said. ``It just happened that my uncle was someone who hit big with the story that he was researching, but she would help anyone who asked a question.''
Samuel Block
NEWS:April 22,2000
Samuel Block, a civil rights leader who helped register Southern blacks to vote in the 1960s, died April 13. He was 60. Block, who was diabetic, died in his apartment. The cause of death was not immediately known and the family has requested an autopsy, said Block's sister, Margaret. As a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Block faced stiff opposition in his native Mississippi when he tried to help blacks register to vote. He was repeatedly beaten and jailed for his civil rights work, yet refused to abandon the registration effort. He maintained his support for civil rights causes throughout his life and planned to attend a coordinating committee reunion at the time of his death.
Added:APRIL 2000
Mark Collie Celebrity Race for Diabetes Cure--
http://www.markcollie.org/
Mark Collie Diabetes Foundation,
PO Box 58060 Nashville TN 37105. SOURCE: B Rose
Kevin Klein
Actor, Whose son is a diabetic. Kevin recently joined the board of directors of the NYC chapter of JDFI. His wife is Phoebe Kates, actress. Their son, Owen, now 11, was dx with type 1 in Dec. 1999. Has 2 Children; Greta Simone and Owen. SOURCE:filmrn
Phoebe Kates
Actress, Whose son is a diabetic. Married to Kevin Klein who recently joined the board of directors of the NYC chapter of JDFI. Their son, Owen, now 11, was dx with type 1 in Dec. 1999. Has 2 Children; Greta Simone and Owen. SOURCE:filmrn
Wasim Akram
the pakistani cricket fast bowler is a Type 1 diabetic. He has been in the cricket circuit for more than 10 years and is one of the fittest guys around. Many people are surprised to know that he is a diabetic on insulin mainly because of the strenous work put on by a fast bowler in cricket.SOURCE: Jay Nair
BLOOD SUGAR
NEWS:April 21,2000 World Premiere of BLOOD SUGAR Written and Performed by Award-Winning Theatre, Television and Film Actress SUE GAETZMAN. BLOOD SUGAR is a one-woman autobiographical play chronicling the life of SUE GAETZMAN, a diabetic for 31 years who, within the last 18 months, has survived many extraordinary odds: The deeply devastating and sudden loss of her husband to kidney cancer; the loss of her sister due to almost indescribable complications from diabetes; and the calamitous death of her father to Lou Gerhig's disease. On April 14, 1999, less than 4 weeks after the loss of her father, and following a longtime downhill battle with her own health which had already suffered kidney damage, glaucoma, and the loss of a toe from one foot, SUE GAETZMAN received a much needed, last minute, live-saving kidney and pancreas transplant. To date that transplant has proved to be a divine gift that will forever link Gaetzman with her donor Brent Adams, an eight year old twin boy who, while walking Home from school on April 13, 1999, was tragically killed by a car near his Brea, California home. Miraculously, since GAETZMAN received the double transplant from young Adams, she is no longer a diabetic and has made a stunning return to an increasingly healthy and fulfilling life. GAETZMAN and Adam's affiliation became public not only because of the (Orange County) publicized nature of his death, but because GAETZMAN and Brent's mother Toni Adams joined the growing number of transplant patients and donor families breaking a longtime rule of confidentiality. Though GAETZMAN and Mrs. Adams have never met and have communicated only by mail, they have been active in the encouragement of organ donation via various Southland organ donor organizations. GAETZMAN and Toni Adams will meet for the first time on stage upon the conclusion of the opening performance of BLOOD SUGAR at TheTamarind Theatre, 5915 Franklin Avenue, Hollywood, CA FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2000 - 8:00 PM
Added:MARCH 2000
Nell Carter
Actress has type 2, born on September 13, 1948 SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Leonard Thompson
at age 12 he was the first person to successfully receive an insulin injection in 1922 at the
Toronto General Hospital. SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Gary Hall
Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer diagnosed within the last few years, and an advocate for the ADA. SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Dr. George Minot
was the first person with diabetes to recieve the Nobel Prize in medicine, in 1934
SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Paul Cezanne
French impressionist painter, born on January 18, 1839 It is speculated that his diabetic eye disease may have influenced his painting. SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Scott Coleman
first man with diabetes to swim the English channel, (swam on August 17, 1996)
SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Miles Davis
Jazz great, played trumpet and fluegelhorn, had type 2 and was born on January 25, 1926 SOURCE:Christopher Frost
Al Grey
NEWS:March 24,2000
Al Grey, a prolific jazz trombonist whose unique plunger-mute style was recorded on nearly 100 albums, died Friday. He was 74 and had suffered from several ailments, including diabetes. While musicians don't like to compare themselves to one another, bass player Milt Hinton, who gained fame as part of the Cab Calloway Band, said Grey was certainly among the best of his generation. Grey played with a litany of jazz's elite during his career, including Benny Carter, Frank Sinatra, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald. His sound was marked by his use of the plunger mute, a technique on which he wrote a book. Grey joined Count Basie in 1957 and played with him on three separate occasions, the last from 1971 to 1977. In all, he recorded nearly 30 albums of his own and appeared on another 70 records. Among them was the Grammy-nominated movie soundtrack for ``The Color Purple.'' Grey was born on June 6, 1925, in Aldie, Va. He learned to play trombone from his father, who taught a neighborhood youth band in Pottstown, Penn., said his son Albert Jr. Later, the jazz trombonist followed in his father's footsteps, teaching children in his Philadelphia neighborhood between gigs. ``With him, he just enjoyed playing,'' Albert Jr. said. ``He wasn't always about getting paid. He would just come in. If he knew some other players in a club, he would just pull out his horn and play.''
Alvin Childress
ACTOR:Born 1908, Meridian, Mississippi, USA. DIED: 19 April 1986, Inglewood, California, USA. (Death Due to parkinson's disease & diabetes) SOURCE:IMDB
Walter Fenner
ACTOR: Date of birth c. 1882, in Akron, Ohio, USA Date of death 7 November 1947,Los Angeles, California, USA. (Death Due to diabetes) SOURCE:IMDB
Ernst Günther
Actor, director, writer Date of birth 3 June 1933,In Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden
Date of death 8 December 1999, Glemmingebro, Sweden SOURCE:IMDB
Ralph Herz
ACTOR:Date of birth 25 March 1878, In Paris, France Date of death 12 July 1921, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. (Death due to diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Dan Kemp
ACTOR:Date of birth 29 November 1927, in San Diego Date of death 11 January 2000, Nevada City, California, USA. (death due to diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Joel Lawrence
ACTOR:Birth name Joel List Date of birth (location) 23 November 1932, The Bronx, New York, USA
Date of death (details) 23 May 1999, Los Angeles, California, USA. (complications from diabetes) SOURCE:IMDB
Curtis Mayfield
ACTOR:COMPOSER:MUSICIAN: Date of birth (location) 3 June 1942, Chicago, Illinois, USA Date of death (details) 26 December 1999, Roswell, Georgia, USA. (complications of diabetes)Rhythm and blues performer/songwriter credited with defining 1960's Chicago sound in hits like "It's All Right" and "Gypsy Woman." His style influenced other artists from pop to hip hop. Has been a quadriplegic ever since he was struck by lighting rig during outdoor concert in New York, 1990. Member of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame whose 1968 hit "We're A Winner, " became a civil rights anthem. Two-time Grammy winner whose "Superfly" soundtrack sold more than 4 million copies. Chicago soul legend Curtis Mayfield had his right leg amputated below the knee on June19th,1999. SOURCE:IMDB
Joseph V. Perry
ACTOR:Date of birth (location) 13 February 1931, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA Date of death (details) 23 February 2000, Burbank, California, USA. (diabetes complications) Joseph Received the 1949 Glenn Ford Award at Santa Monica High School and also Received a U.C.L.A. Best Actor award in 1952 SOURCE:IMDB
Kukrit Pramoj
ACTOR:PRIME MINISTER OF THAILAN Date of birth (location) 20 April 1911 Date of death (details) 9 October 1995, Bangkok, Thailand. (heart disease and diabetes complications ) Kukrit Pramoj was the son of a Thai prince. He attended Oxford University in England and became active in Thai politics after World War II. Pramoj worked as a bournalist and banker while military juntas ruled Thailand over the next several decades. He starred in the 1963 film "The Ugly American" as the prime minister of a fictional Asian country. A decade later he became prime minister of Thailand, serving in that office from March of 1975 until April of 1976. Pramoj's brother, Seni, also held the position of prime minister several times in the 1970s. Kukrit remained a leading figure in Thai politics until his death in October of 1995. SOURCE:IMDB
Fernando Soto
ACTOR:Birth name Fernando Soto Astol Date of birth (location) 15 April 1911, Puebla, Mexico Date of death (details) 11 May 1980, Mexico City, Mexico. (diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Hal Southern
ACTOR:COMPOSER: Date of birth (location) c. 1919 Date of death (details) 15 July 1998, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. (diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Arne Stivell
Actor, composer, director, writer, producer: Birth name Arne Svensson Date of birth (location) 3 August 1926 Date of death (details) July 1997. (diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Birdy Sweeney
ACTOR: Date of birth (location) 14 June 1931, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, UK Date of death (details) 11 May 1999, St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, Ireland Birdy Sweeney began acting when he was in his 50s having spent much of his earlier life as a comic and bird impersonator. He won his distinctive nickname while still a schoolboy making his debut mimicking blackbirds as an 11-year-old on BBC Radio Ulster. Sweeney had a heart attack when he was only 40 and suffered from diabetes throughout his life. Despite his late start as an actor he managed to pick up many credits. SOURCE:IMDB
Willa Pearl Curtis
ACTRESS: Date of birth (location) 21 March 1896, Texas, USA Date of death (details) 19 December 1970,
Los Angeles, California, USA. (cerebral arteriosclerosis and diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Mary Ford
ACTRESS:Birth name Colleen Summers Date of birth (location) 1924, El Monte, California, USA
Date of death (details) 30 September 1976, Arcadia, California, USA. (complications of diabetes-pneumonia) SOURCE:IMDB
Rosemary Lane
ACTRESS:Birth name Rosemary Mullican Date of birth (location) 4 April 1914, Indianola, Iowa, USA
Date of death (details) 25 November 1974, Woodland Hills, California, USA. (diabetes and pulmonary obstruction) SOURCE:IMDB
Mrs. Lewis McCord
ACTRESS:Date of birth (location) 18??, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Date of death (details) 24 December 1917, New York, New York, USA. (pleuro pneumonia and diabetes) SOURCE:IMDB
Dusty McCrea
ACTRESS:Date of birth (location) 1941 Date of death (details) 1996, Hondo, New Mexico, USA. (diabetes)
SOURCE:IMDB
Ave Ninchi
ACTRESS: Date of birth (location) 14 December 1915, Ancona, Italy Date of death (details) 10 November 1997, Trieste, Italy. (diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Eva Puig
ACTRESS:Date of birth (location) 3 February 1894, Mexico Date of death (details) 6 October 1968, Panorama City, California, USA. (diabetes complications and heart failure) SOURCE:IMDB
Patty Sauers
ACTRESS:Date of death (details) 25 March 1989, Pacific Grove, California, USA. (diabetes complications) SOURCE:IMDB
Lydia Echevarria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Puerto Rican authorities on Thursday January27,2000 freed an
actress convicted of murder more than a decade ago for hiring hit men to kill her husband. The parole board decided to free Lydia Echevarria, upholding Gov. Pedro Rossello's decision last month to grant her clemency for health reasons. Echevarria was sentenced to 208 years in jail for the 1983 death of her husband Luis Vigoreaux, a television producer and variety show host. Suffering from diabetes, Echevarria left the prison in a wheelchair.
``Thanks to God,'' she said as she was taken to a van that whisked her past the gates of the Women's Prison in Vega Alta, about 20 miles southwest of San Juan. Dozens of reporters and onlookers were crowded outside the prison awaiting her release. Echevarria, 68, was convicted of murder in 1986 for hiring killers who
kidnapped Vigoreaux, beat him with a tire iron, stabbed him with an ice pick and then locked him in the trunk of his car and set it ablaze, burning him alive. Prosecutors said Echevarria was angry because she suspected Vigoreaux was going to leave her for a younger woman. Echevarria was known for her roles in local theater and television, and she appeared on Vigoreaux's show. The five-member parole board had the final say over whether to allow her to go free because Rossello stopped short of granting a full pardon. Echevarria's release was fought by stepsons Roberto Vigoreaux, a local legislator, and Luis Vigoreaux Jr., himself a variety show host. Daughters Glendaly and Vanessa supported the clemency.
Mack Robinson
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Mack Robinson, the older brother of Jackie Robinson and a world-class athlete in his own right, died Sunday (March 12,2000) of complications from a stroke, diabetes and kidney failure. He was 85.He had a heart attack in December 1990, then had a massive stroke while undergoing quintuple-bypass surgery in June 1991. He had been bedridden since. Robinson won the silver medal in the 200 meters in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, finishing behind Jesse Owens. Robinson's accomplishments came long before his brother broke baseball's color line in 1947, and the elder Robinson's performance in Berlin was considered a surprise. After the Olympics, Robinson starred on the Oregon track team, winning the NCAA 220-yard title and the AAU 200-meter championship in 1938.The second of five children, he was inducted into the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in 1983. Despite being in the shadow of his younger brother, Mack instead took pride in Jackie's accomplishments."`He always liked to say they had something in common: Fighting the prejudice in the late 1930s and early 1940s,'' George Beres, a friend who was Oregon sports information director from 1976-82, told the Oregonian of Portland. ``They had more than just bloodlines and last name in common.''
Rodolfo Garcia
NEWS:Sunday March 12 ,2000
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - Rodolfo Garcia, an Associated Press reporter who
helped chronicle Nicaragua's emergence out of civil war, a papal visit, volcanoes and floods, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 58. Garcia joined The Associated Press in Managua in 1986 after working for Radio Nicaragua, where he was director of short-wave broadcasts, and after helping found a local news agency, Agencia de Noticias Nueva Nicaragua. For the AP, he covered the war between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels, the Sandinistas' loss of power at the ballot box and the country's sometimes turbulent effort to put years of war behind it. He also reported on volcanic eruptions, the 1996 visit of Pope John Paul II and the ravages of Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Garcia was born in Nandasmo, a town about 15 miles south of Managua. He attended the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua. Garcia suffered a series of illnesses last year, including diabetes and cancer. Survivors include his wife, Ana Leonor Hernandez, and four daughters.
Dale Evans
Actress-Singer-Cowgirl-Dedicated Christian. American leading lady of musical Westerns of the 1940s. Born Lucille Wood Smith in Uvalde, Texas, her name was changed at an early age to Frances Octavia Smith. She was raised in Texas and in Arkansas. Married at 14 and a mother at 15, she was divorced at 17 (some sources say widowed). Intent on a singing career, she moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and worked in an insurance company while taking occasional radio singing jobs. After another unhappy marriage, she went to Louisville, Kentucky and became a popular singer on a local radio station. There she took the stage name Dale Evans (from her third husband, Robert Dale Butts, and actress Madge Evans). Divorced in 1936, she moved to Dallas, Texas and again found local
success as a radio singer. She married Butts and they moved to Chicago, where she began to attract increasing attention from both radio audiences and film industry executives. She signed with Fox and made a few small film appearances, then was cast as leading lady to rising cowboy star Roy Rogers. She and Rogers clicked and she became his steady on-screen companion. In 1946, Rogers's wife died and Evans marriage to Butts ended
about the same time. Rogers and Evans had been close colleagues a string of successful Westerns, and now became close off-screen as well. A year later, she married Rogers and the two united to become icons of American pop culture. Their marriage was dogged by tragedy, including the loss of three children before adulthood, but Evans was able not only to find inspiration in the midst of tragedy but to provide inspiration as well, authoring several books on her life and spiritual growth through difficulty. She and Rogers starred during the 1950s on the popular TV program bearing his name, and even after retirement continued to make occasional appearances and to run their Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Museum in Victorville, California. To read an in-depth interview with Dale Evans Please go to http://www.mendosa.com/evans.htmSOURCE: Rick Mendosa
Bill Talbert
Tennis --Hall of Fame tennis player Bill Talbert, who won 33 national titles, died Feb 28,1999 at his home in Manhattan. He was 80. Talbert, who suffered from diabetes since the age of 10, had been in declining health since suffering a broken shoulder and pelvis while being mugged in 1992. Talbert was a two-time singles finalist at the United States Championships -- which later became known as the U.S. Open -- but was beaten by Frank Parker in the 1944 and 1945 finals. He did win eight doubles crowns at the United States Championships, four men's titles with Gardnar Mulloy and four mixed doubles titles with Margaret Osborne. During two stints as the U.S. Open's tournament director (1971-75, 1978-87), Talbert helped move the grand slam from the private Westside Tennis Club of Forest Hills to the hardcourts at Flushing Meadows and introduced the use of tiebreakers in decisive sets. Answering players' criticism of the new rule he said, "I never knew a player who bought a ticket." A winner of nine mixed doubles Grand Slam titles, Talbert participated in Davis Cup from 1946 to 1953, and served as captain of the national team for five years. He was 13-4 at the helm and his team won the Davis Cup in 1954. Talbert, who also won the French Open doubles championship with Tony Trabert in 1950, was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1967. He is survived by his sons Pike and Peter, two grandchildren. The Following was sent to us by Rick Mendosa We thought it may of be an interest to you. New York Times (science section), 2/29/2000, from peter talbert regarding his father, billy: excerpts: "my father, bill talbert, learned he had juvenile diabetes in 29 when he was 10 yrs old... insulin had just come on the market, effectively saving his life...doctors, however, recommended a sedentary lifestyle and a strict diet ...after 3 yrs of inactivity, his father took him to a "radical" doctor who agreed to a regimen including limited exercise, steering him toward tennis. within two years he had a national junior ranking and by 1940 was in the u.s. top ten where he remained for 13 years... in 1957 he wrote his autobiography 'playing for life.' when he died last year at 80 he had coexisted with diabetes for 70 years."
Phonies Beware!
1956 MOVIE: This Screenliner short shows how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looks at drug claims that may be fraudulent. In this case, a product called "Elixirex" is advertised as a cure-all for almost any ailment, including arthritis, rheumatism, and diabetes. After a diabetes patient dies following use of Elixirex, FDA inspectors start their investigation.
Added:JANUARY 2000
Bettino Craxi
NEWS:::January 12 ,2000 died today in
Tunisia. Craxi, 65, once a major political kingpin and one of Italy's longest-serving premiers in the 1980s, had been in poor health for years, suffering from complications of diabetes.
Gene Harris
Grammy-nominated jazz pianist who had been awaiting a kidney transplant, died at his home Sunday January 16,2000. He was 66. Harris was due for transplant surgery last summer because of kidney failure caused by diabetes. His daughter planned to donate a kidney, but could not because of illness. Harris, who had maintained a busy schedule recording and touring both nationally and internationally, began performing at the age of six. A native of Benton Harbor, Mich., Harris formed the Three Sounds in 1956 and within two years secured a record contract in New York. Harris' piano stylings made the Three Sounds one of the most popular 1960's
jazz groups. Harris moved to Boise in 1977 where he became musical director for a hotel, and he continued recording, eventually joining Ray Brown's Trio. Harris was nominated for a Grammy four years ago.
Gordon Justin Wright
a former diplomat and an authority on European history, died of complications from diabetes Tuesday Jan. 11,2000. He was 87. A specialist on French history, World War II and its impact on European institutions and culture, Wright wrote 15 books, including, ``Raymond Poincare and the French Presidency,'' ``The Reshaping of French Democracy'' and ``Rural Revolution in France: The Peasantry in the Twentieth Century.'' During and after World War II, he served as a State Department specialist on France and as a foreign service officer. Wright became a Stanford professor in 1957, going on to lead the history department and serve as associate dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences.
Q-Tip
Musician from a Tribe Called Quest Submitted by BG10438
Robert Wood Johnson's IV Daughter Casey
NEWS:1-12-2000 Chairman of Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International and Chairman and CEO of The Johnson Company, is the new owner of the New York Jets. Mr. Johnson has served as JDF's Chairman since June 1995 and has been involved with the foundation over the past ten years. His daughter Casey has had juvenile, or Type 1 diabetes, for the past twelve years.
Nat Adderley
Jazz trumpeter and diabetes-sufferer had his right leg removed due to diabetes
NEWS:1-03-2000 Nat Adderley, a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame who played on nearly 100 albums, died on Sunday (1-02-2000) of
complications from diabetes. He was 68. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in Kansas City in 1997, the Florida-born cornetist first came to prominence with his older brother, bebop saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, in the 1950s. The composer of such jazz standards as "Work Song" and "Jive Samba," Nat Adderley was known for recordings by his own group and with his late brother's Cannonball Adderley Quintet. Since Cannonball's death in 1975, Nat had led his own quintets. His most notable sidemen were altoists Sonny Fortune and Vincent Herring. In 1997, he joined the faculty of Florida Southern College as artist in residence. He had also headlined and hosted the school's annual "Child of the Sun Jazz Festival" for more than 10 years.
Curtis Mayfield
Soul singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield, whose work introduced a social conscience into black music at the height of the civil rights movement and who continued to make music for a decade after an accident left him paralyzed, died Sunday Dec.26,1999. He was 57. Mayfield's string of hits included ``Gypsy Woman,'' the gospel-tinged ``People Get Ready,'' the rallying cry ``Keep On Pushing'' and the funk classic ``Superfly.'' The cause of his death was not released. An onstage accident in 1990 left Mayfield paralyzed from the neck down, a
condition that caused his health to deteriorate in recent years. Doctors amputated his right leg last year because of diabetes brought on by the injury. Mayfield was too ill to attend a March ceremony in which he was inducted
him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He became a Grammy Legend Award winner in 1994 and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner the next year. In a 1996 interview with The Associated Press, Mayfield said he was happy his songs had touched so many people. `I wrote them for myself,'' he said. ``Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important
to me.''
Lucy Fisher
Mrs. Fisher has a DIABETIC SON. Lucy is Vice Chairman, Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group.
Lucy helps raise money for Diabetes Research.
Freddie Meeks
NEWS:LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a half-century, Freddie Meeks told no one he was a mutineer. Not his children. Not his employers. But on Thursday, it seemed as if the whole world dropped by his tidy
stucco home to congratulate the frail 80-year-old man and ask how it felt to receive a presidential pardon of his conviction in the nation's largest mutiny trial. It felt just fine. `I know God was keeping me around here for something to see,'' Meeks said. His pardon was one of 37 granted by President Clinton as a Christmastime gesture. The others involved those convicted of drug offenses, tax evasion, stealing mail and fraud. Meeks, who had formally sought the pardon this year, said he ``knew we had a good president
and I figured he would do the right thing.'' He was among 50 black sailors court-martialed, found guilty of mutiny and sentenced to prison and hard labor for refusing to load live ammunition after a 1944 explosion at the Port Chicago naval facility near San Francisco killed 320 people. The subsequent standoff between black sailors and white officers inspired the TV movie ``Mutiny.'' Lawmakers, veterans and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People argued the sailors were victims of racial prejudice. The Navy agreed with them in a 1994 review of the case, though it did not overturn their convictions. The pardon had no official effect on the records of the other convicted seamen. The only other known living survivor of the case, Jules Crittenden of Montgomery, Ala., has not sought a pardon. He told The Associated Press in August he was more interested in
seeing each family of the victims get full benefits from the military. Meeks was among hundreds of untrained black sailors who loaded ammunition aboard transport ships at the naval base during World War II. The work was frightening, he recalled, with bombs banging together as they slid into the hatch on a homemade runway. He asked a lieutenant if the bombs were live. ``He said, `Oh no, they're not live, boy. Don't worry about it. They're not gonna explode,''Meeks said. ``But the next day, the ship was blown to hell and back.'' Two-thirds of those killed on July 17, 1944, were black sailors. The blast also wounded 390 people and destroyed two transport ships. It was the worst domestic loss of life during the war. Clinton noted Meeks had participated in the ``extraordinarily difficult job of picking up human remains'' following the blast. ``It wasn't bodies,'' Meeks said. ``It was pieces. You couldn't tell white from black. They just shoveled 'em up.'' White officers were given 30-day leaves after the blast. The black sailors were ordered back to work. Meeks and others refused. ``They told us, `You know you could be shot''' he said. ``But we made up our mind - you go back, you might be blown to pieces. So we didn't go back.'' The arrested sailors were held on a barge until they were tried and convicted for mutiny. ``They felt because we was black that we supposed to did the dirty work and say nothing,'' he added. ``But thank God that we spoke up and we stood up for our rights.'' Meeks served less than two years of a 15-year sentence. He later was assigned to a ship and finished his term with an honorable discharge in 1946 that allowed him to retain military
benefits. ``I'm not bitter because it's something happened so long ago, you just outlive it, that's all,'' he
said of his conviction. He later worked at a warehouse and as a security guard for Los Angeles County and CBS. He never told his bosses about the jail term. ``I kept my mouth shut, because I had to have a job,'' he said. ``They'd have said, `We can't use you because you have went against the country ... you rebelled.''' Meeks and his wife also never told their children, Cheryl, Brian and Daryl, who now is a Los Angeles County sheriff's sergeant. They only found out as adults. Meeks said he didn't want schoolmates to taunt them for having a ``jailbird'' for a father. ``It hurt me on the inside to have to keep that away from my kids,'' he said. Meeks is in failing health. He has a pacemaker, an eye patch, diabetes and suffered two recent strokes. Of the pardon, he said ``it won't do very much for me, but it (will) do things for other young blacks just going into the service.
Lyle Leverich
Author of what leading critics called the definitive biography of playwright Tennessee Williams, has died from complications of diabetes. He was 79. Leverich was working on a second and final volume on Williams when he died Dec. 17,1999 at a hospital. Williams authorized Leverich to write his biography and gave him access to unpublished diaries, letters and manuscripts after the two men struck up a friendship in 1976. Leverich first met Williams when producing the playwright's ``The Two-Character Play'' in Marin County. Williams visited several times to supervise the production, which was a critical and popular success. Leverich did not begin working in earnest on the biography until 1983, when Williams died at the age of 71 by choking on the cap from a bottle of eyedrops. ``Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams,'' was published in 1995 by Crownand was met with praise from both critics and renowned playwrights. Leverich was born to a Long Island family that reportedly lost its real estate fortune in the 1920s, a fate that led to his parents' divorce. As a child, Leverich staged plays in the family basement. He later dabbled in journalism and playwrighting before joining the Navy and fighting in the South Pacific during World War II. After the war, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and went into the screenwriting and bookselling businesses.
Added:DECEMBER 1999
Mabel King
The actress best known simply as Mama--the oversized, all-powerful matriarch of 1970s sitcom What's Happening!!--has died of complications from diabetes, it has been learned. Mabel King died November 9,1999 in Woodland Hills, California. She was 66. Movie fans will remember King for her turn as Steve Martin's mother in 1979's The Jerk and for her life force of a performance in the 1978 musical, The Wiz, where she played the Wicked Witch of the West (name of Evillene). But it is in the forever world of TV reruns where King arguably leaves her biggest mark. In the 1976-79 ABC sitcom, she played the no-nonsense life advisor to a trio of teen boys, son Raj (Ernest Thomas), and his friends Dwayne (Haywood Nelson) and Rerun (Fred Berry). Poor health plagued King for years--she worked little following the What's Happening!! run. More recent credits included a bit in the 1988 Bill Murray comedy, Scrooged. Diabetes cost King both her legs; a stroke damaged her left hand; a fall from a wheelchair knocked out her upper teeth. She lived at Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills for nine years, leaving the residence just this past August. "Sure enough, I've been through a lot," King told the Los Angeles Times in 1995, "but so what? I thank God for my life."
John Paul Stapp
NEWS:November 13,1999
ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) - John Paul Stapp, once known as the ``the fastest man on Earth'' for his rocket sled test runs, died on Saturday at age 89. Stapp, a retired Air Force colonel, doctor and space research pioneer, had been suffering from emphysema and diabetes. He took 29 grueling rocket sled rides in the 1950s, proving human beings could withstand more than 40 times the force of gravity. The experiments studied the effects of mechanical force on living tissues. Among other things, the information he collected provided criteria for crash protection designs for aircraft, space cabins and ground vehicles. Stapp is also credited with popularizing Murphy's Law - ``If anything can go wrong, it will'' - at a press conference on the deceleration project. The law was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer at Edwards Air Force Base. Stapp told reporters the base's good safety record on the project was due to a firm belief in Murphy's Law and the need to circumvent it. Aerospace manufacturers began using the phrase in their ads, and it began to be used widely soon after.
Maria Esther Zuno
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Maria Esther Zuno, wife of former President Luis Echeverria and a woman known for championing women's rights and domestic social and cultural programs, has died, Mexican newspapers reported. She was 74. Zuno died Saturday of complications from diabetes, the reports said Sunday. She would have celebrated her 75th birthday on Wednesday, the daily Universal said. President Ernesto Zedillo and former President Jose Lopez Portillo were among dignitaries paying their respects Saturday at the Echeverrias' home, where the former first lady's body lay in state. Zuno was married for 54 years to Echeverria, who governed Mexico from 1970 to 1976. The two met at the home of famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and were married in January 1945. They had eight children. In addition to her friendship with Rivera, Zuno had close ties to well-known Mexican artists David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco and Isidro Fabela. She also was friends with the late Chilean President Salvador Allende, according to Universal. Among Zuno's priorities as first lady were support of domestic social programs and equal rights for women. She also promoted Mexican cultural traditions, conducting goodwill tours in other countries to share traditional dance, dress, music and art. In addition to her husband, Zuno is survived by seven of her eight children, and 19 grandchildren.
Earl Petty
The father of rock star Tom Petty, died Dec 10,1999 after a long history of illness. He was 75. Petty, a retired insurance man, suffered from diabetes, emphysema and other ailments. A native of Bronson, he was an Air Force groundsman in Egypt during World War II. After the war, he returned to Gainesville where he went to work as a truck driver.
Added:NOVEMBER 1999
Waylon Jennings
Country Singer and Songwriter. Born in Littlefield, Texas, in 1937, Jennings began his music
career as a disc jockey in Lubbock., His long list of hits includes ``Good Hearted Woman'' and ``Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys,'' a duet with Willie Nelson. Waylon Jennings walks with a cane. He has a bad back and heart trouble, and his feet and hands sometimes hurt from a diabetic illness.
Joe Serna Jr.
NEWS:November 7,1999
Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna Jr., a former college professor who spent nearly two decades as an elected city official, died Sunday of kidney cancer and complications arising from diabetes. He was 60. Serna had briefly slipped into a diabetic coma Wednesday and returned home from the hospital Friday. He passed away at 3:47 a.m. surrounded by his family, said Chuck Dalldorf, a spokesman for the mayor. President Clinton issued a statement saying he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton were ``deeply saddened'' to learn of Serna's death and that their thoughts and prayers were with Serna's family. ``Joe was an extraordinary public servant, educator, father, husband and friend,'' Clinton said. ``He was a great leader of Sacramento and a source of inspiration to the Hispanic community and all Americans.'' Serna, who was born in Stockton and raised in Lodi, was elected in 1981 to the Sacramento City Council, where he served 11 years. He was elected mayor in 1992, and re-elected in 1996. ``Joe was a true giant in the Latino community, and a visionary leader for all of Sacramento,'' said Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante in a statement. A follower of the late farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, Serna served on the Sacramento-area support committee for the United Farm Workers and on an array of municipal bodies. Since he died with more than a year left in his term, a special election will be held next year to determine a successor.
Ketil Moe
NEWS:November 12 ,1999
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Ketil Moe, a Norwegian lung transplant recipient who ran the 1999 New York City Marathon, collapsed two days ago during a stopover in Copenhagen on
his way home, and died today. He was 32. The diabetic had been warned by his doctors not to run the marathon last Sunday. But the physicans also warned him about many of the 12 marathons he had ran before his 1997 transplant, races he sometimes entered with bleeding lungs. `I hope I will survive,'' Moe said before the race. ``It will be the toughest race ever.'' On the plane back from New York,Moe became ill and collapsed Wednesday. He died two days later at Copenhagen's University Hospital of a bacterial infection. Before his transplant, Moe was confined to a wheelchair.
Gregory Luna
NEWS: November 8,1999
Veteran Lawmaker Mourned - (SAN ANTONIO) -- Tributes are pouring in for retired State
Senator Gregory Luna, who died over the weekend of complications from diabetes. Luna
resigned from the legislature in August after both his legs were amputated. He was a former
police officer who helped found the influential Mexican American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund. While in the legislature, he wrote much of the state's current education law.
Molly Malcolm, head of the state Democratic Party, called Luna "one of the truly great leaders
of Texas." She says Texas schoolchildren have lost a great friend. A memorial service is set
for tomorrow in San Antonio.
NEWS:Sept.24,1999
State Senator , who led the fight to reform school finance in Texas, resigned today (9-24-1999)due to health problems. The San Antonio Democrat has been suffering from diabetes. He recently had both legs amputated. Luna was first elected to the State House in 1984, and he moved to the Senate in 1992. He is a true giant in Mexican-American politics. Back in the 70's, Luna helped found the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry called Luna ``a powerful advocate for causes like better schools and greater hope and opportunity for all Texans.'' Governor Bush will call a special election to decide a successor.
Added:OCTOBER 1999
Hoyt Axton
NEWS:October 26 ,1999
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Hoyt Axton, a folksy baritone, songwriter and actor who wrote Three Dog Night's No. 1 hit ``Joy to the World'' and songs that were performed by artists from Elvis Presley to Ringo Starr, died Tuesday. He was 61. Axton died at his ranch in the Bitterroot Valley, surrounded by family and friends. He moved to the area after playing a sheriff in the movie ``Disorganized Crime,'' filmed there in 1988. He suffered a heart attack two weeks ago and another during surgery, said Jan Woods, a longtime friend in Nashville, Tenn. He had never fully recovered from a 1996 stroke and used a wheelchair much of the time. Axton also had advanced complications from diabetes.Axton's mother, Mae Boren Axton, had her own spot in popular culture history as the writer of Presley's ``Heartbreak Hotel.'' ``When Mae died three years ago, she left me Hoyt,'' Ms. Woods said. ``He was probably one of the most honest, humorous kids that never grew up.''``There was nobody that didn't like Hoyt,'' said Fran Boyd, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Academy of Country Music. ``Oh God, was he fun.'' Three Dog Night's recording of his novelty ``Joy to the World'' (``Jeremiah was a bullfrog ...'') was on top of the charts for six straight weeks in 1971, making it the top hit of the year. Axton pitched the song to group members when he was their opening act in 1969-70. He also wrote ``Never Been to Spain'' for the band, a song also recorded by Presley. Axton's own singing hits include ``Boney Fingers'' (``Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get? Boney fingers'') and ``When the Morning Comes.'' The native of Duncan, Okla., started out singing folk songs in the clubs of San Francisco in 1958 and a song he co-wrote, ``Greenback Dollar,'' was a 1963 hit for the Kingston Trio. He wrote hits for Starr (``No No Song'') and Steppenwolf (``The Pusher''). Others who performed songs he wrote included Joan Baez, Waylon Jennings, John Denver and Linda Ronstadt. Steppenwolf's ``The Pusher'' and ``Snowblind Friend'' were rare forays into a more serious theme. ``The Pusher'' was a powerful, passionate song that condemned drug sellers. And 1975's ``No No Song'' included the lines ``No no no no, I don't sniff it no more. I'm tired of waking up on the floor.'' But in 1997, police found slightly more than a pound of marijuana at Axton's home. Deborah Hawkins, whom Axton wed later that year, said she gave him marijuana because it relieved some of the pain, anxiety and stress he suffered after his stroke, her lawyer said. Axton was given a three-year deferred sentence and fined $15,000 for marijuana possession. Hawkins got a one-year deferred sentence and a $1,000 fine. A large man, Axton as an actor specialized in playing good ol' boys on TV and in films, including ``Gremlins'' and ``The Black Stallion.'' He sang the ``Head to the Mountains'' jingle used to advertise Busch beer in the 1980s. Survivors include Axton's wife and five children.
John Marshall
guitar player for the band Metal Church. He is an insulin dependent diabetic.
SOURCE:KENNETH CARLIN
Kirk Arrington
drummer for the band Metal Church. He is an insuln-dependent diabetic that was diagnosed September of 1989. SOURCE:KENNETH CARLIN
Bettino Craxi
NEWS:October 26,1999
TUNIS (Reuters) - Fugitive former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is in intensive care in a
Tunis hospital with heart problems and could face jail if he sought treatment in Italy. ``He is still in intensive care in a Tunis hospital. We will see how he is doing after a review today between a doctor from Italy and his Tunisian doctors,'' Craxi's son Vittorio told Reuters in Tunis. Craxi is wanted in Italy on corruption charges. His son said the 65-year-old had a heart attack after severe pneumonia. In Rome, the office of Italian Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema said the premier was not opposed to Craxi's return for medical treatment. The office statement said, however, that it would be up to the magistrature and not the government to rule on the judicial position of Craxi. Italian doctors who visited him were quoted by Italian news agencies as saying his condition was critical. After several appeals, Italy's highest court in 1996 definitively convicted Craxi in one trial involving illegal financing of political parties, the crime at the heart of corruption scandals of the early 1990s. In that case, he was sentenced to five years and six months in jail. A conviction on corruption charges in another trial was overturned by the high court. Craxi, once one of Italy's most powerful politicians and now in self-imposed exile in the Tunisian resort of Hammamet, was rushed to hospital late Sunday. The Socialist headed two successive governments from 1983 to 1987 before Italy's political old guard collapsed in a flood of corruption scandals in the early 1990s. He carved up power with former prime ministers Giulio Andreotti and Arnaldo Forlani of the Christian Democrats in a string of center-left governments. In the 1980s, no government could be formed without the blessing of the authoritarian Craxi, who ruled his party with an iron fist at its height in the late 1980s. He has been living in Hammamet since 1994. Citing health problems, including diabetes and gangrene, he has refused to return to Italy.
Stan Frazier
Wrestler who competed as Uncle Elmer, Kamala II, and The Convict, died as the
result of complications from diabetes on June 30,1992. He was 54.
Captian Rowdy
Wrestler
Robert ``Gorilla Monsoon'' Marella,
a true giant of professional wrestling who body-slammed Muhammad Ali and debated Jesse Ventura, has died of a heart ailment in October 1999.
Lucille B. Chapman
a five-time Menominee Indian tribal chairwoman, died Sunday Oct 24, 1999 of diabetes. She was 70. Chapman was a member of the old tribal council from before 1961, when the tribe's federal trust status ended and the reservation became Menominee County. Chapman was then elected to the Menominee County Board. After the tribe regained its federal trust status in 1973, Chapman was elected to five one-year terms as chair between 1980 and 1990. She was later a legislative secretary.
Norodam Sihanouk
NEWS: October 28,1999
Born Oct. 31, 1922, Sihanouk ascended the Cambodian throne in 1941 and is credited with
leading the Southeast Asian country to independence from France in 1953.PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - King Norodom Sihanouk has complained of poor health ahead of his 77th birthday, darkening Cambodia's preparations for the national holiday. The revered monarch told his subjects in a Wednesday night television broadcast that chronic weakness has forced him to drastically scale back public appearances. ``My subjects, you must understand that I am considerably weak. That is why I can rarely see you,'' Sihanouk said. ``Now my life enters a period that is similar to the setting of the sun.'' The king's cabinet said today that Sihanouk will not be making any public appearances on his birthday Sunday and will spend the day at a Buddhist ceremony within the palace. He will not issue traditional birthday messages - which often include sharp commentary on domestic and international politics - cabinet member Kek Sysoda said. Sihanouk has suffered from a variety of ailments over the years, including cataracts, diabetes and hypertension, and often makes extended stays in Beijing for treatment. He was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1993, but it has since gone into remission. The king is head of state but wields little real power. He is nonetheless greatly revered by his people and has repeatedly been a stabilizing force in Cambodia's often-violent political arena.
George C. Scott
Birth name George Campbell Scott Date of birth:18 October 1927, Wise, Virginia, USA Date of death :22 September 1999 His death was reported Thursday, September 23,1999 was an accomplished actor and director, but despite his man appearances on film, stage and television, he was best known for his portrayal of Gen. George S. Patton. His role in the 1970 film about the heroics of the American general during World War Two in ``Patton'' won him an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1971, but he refused to accept it, calling the Oscar ceremony a ``meat parade'' and condemning the Oscars in general as ``offensive, barbarous and innately corrupt.'' He also refused to attend or even watch the ceremony. When he was announced the winner he was sitting at home on his New York farm watching ice hockey on television. Scott also received Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in 1962 for ``The Hustler'' and for Best Actor in 1972, the year after he had snubbed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for ``The Hospital.'' Born George Campbell Scott in Wise, Va., on Oct. 18, 1927, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps after graduating from high school in 1945 for a four-year stint. In 1950 he briefly studied journalism at the University of Missouri until, as he put it, he realized ``acting paid much better.'' But his acting career started out slowly and stormy. For seven years he toured with small theatrical companies and during this time he went through two failed marriages, to Carolyn Hughes and Patricia Reed, more bar brawls than he cared to remember and five broken noses. His 1957 Broadway debut in the title role in Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' turned his life around, however. His performance, described by one critic as ``stunningly venomous,'' led to a flurry of offers from Hollywood and television. For the remainder of his career, Scott continued to work successfully in all three mediums. He won television Emmy awards for both acting and directing, plus numerous theatrical awards. He made his film debut in 1959, starring in ``The Hanging Tree,'' and followed that up with ``Anatomy of a Murder'' that same year. Among the most notable of his films were ``The Hustler,'' in 1961, ``The List of Adrian Messenger,'' in 1963, and as General ''Buck'' Turgidson, in the 1964 smash hit, ``Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,'' in which he uttered the memorable line, ``I don't say we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than 10 to 20 million killed, tops, that is, depending on the break.'' Other films included ``The Yellow Rolls-Royce'' (1964), ''The Bible ... In the Beginning'' (1966), ``Not with My Life, You Don't, (1966), ``Petulia'' (1968), ``This Savage Land'' (1969), ``Jane Eyre'' (1971), ``The New Centurions'' (1972), ''The Day of the Dolphin (1973), ``TheHindenberg'' (1975), ''Movie, Movie'' (1978), ``The Formula'' (1980), ``Taps'' (1981) and
``Firestarter'' (1984). Scott was married five times, twice to the same wife, actress Colleen Dewhurst, with whom he had two of his six children. The couple married in 1960 and divorced five years later only to remarry in 1967. The second marriage ended in divorce five years later. In 1972, Scott married another actress, Trish Van Devere. Both Dewhurst and Van Devere acted opposite their husband on stage. Scott always maintained that Broadway was where he wanted to be. ``I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway, where I lose money,'' he once said. He brought his classical training to television portraying the characters of British author Charles Dickens, such as Fagin in the 1982 CBS movie ``Oliver Twist'' and as Ebenezer Scrooge in ``A Christmas Carol,'' a 1984 CBS production which is shown every Christmas. A heart attack in 1990 temporarily slowed Scott down but he recovered and continued his hectic work pace, even though suffering from high blood pressure and diabetes.But in April, 1996, he collapsed on a Broadway stage during a performance of ``Inherit the Wind,'' and two weeks later he flew to Los Angeles for surgery to correct an aortic aneurysm.
Michael Sinclair
Defensive end for the Seattle SeaHawks. Born on January 31, 1968 in Beaumont, Texas, attended Charlton-Pollard High School where he excelled in football, basketball and track. After graduation, he attended Eastern New Mexico University on scholarship. He revealed in May that he had been diagnosed with diabetes. Over the past three seasons, no player in the NFL has collected more sacks than Sinclair (41 1/2).
Gladys Knights Family 
Gladys Mother Elizabeth Knight died December 98 from complications of type 2 diabetes.
Diabetes
runs in Gladys Knight's family. Her brother
David and cousin
Edward Patten, one of the "Pips," also have type 2 diabetes. Gladys has established The Elizabeth Knight Fund. The money raised through the American Diabetes Association Elizabeth Knight Fund will be used to support diabetes research and awareness programs in communities across the country. Click here to make your donation part of the American Diabetes Association Elizabeth Knight Fund.
Tom Foster
former head of Foster Poultry Farms, one of the nation's top privately held companies, died from complications from diabetes.
He was 49. Foster died Sept. 22,1999 at his home in a small community Of Hickman, California 90 miles ast of San Francisco. He developed diabetes as a child, leading to heart problems, according to Ed Brown, a family friend. Born Oct, 24, 1949, Foster was the youngest of Max and Vedra Foster's three sons, all of whom were raised to be involved in the family poultry business begun in 1939. Foster took over the company at the age of 27 after his brother, Paul, died of a heart attack after running the company for eight years beginning in 1969. In the early years of this decade, the Fosters decided the company needed changes. They retained ownership, but brought in a CEO and board of directors from outside the family. With $990 million in annual sales and 7,000 employees, Foster Farms now ranks 207th on Forbes Magazine's list of America's 500 top privately held companies.
William R. Melton
a World War II pilot and member of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died Sept. 2 of complication from heart disease and diabetes. He was 78. During World War II, he enlisted as a pilot in what was then the Army Air Corps and was assigned to the all-black unit. As a fighter pilot, Melton flew more than 108 missions over North Africa and Europe. When he completed his duty, Melton remained active with the Tuskegee Airmen throughout his life. He returned to Tuskegee to serve as a flying instructor, served as public relations officer, historian and assistant to several of its national presidents.
Don Aldredge
NEWS:9-21-1999
Arizona is mourning the death of Don Aldredge, the former Speaker of the state
House of Representatives. The former Lake Havasu City Representative had
stepped down from the post after having his leg amputated due to diabetes. Details
surrounding Aldredge's death are not yet available.
Jean Pouliot
NEWS:9-22-1999
Police Chief of Fairfield Maine
The town of Fairfield Maine is reportedly trying to work out a severance agreement with embattled Police Chief Jean Pouliot. "The Bangor Daily News" reports that the Town Council may be voting on some sort of severance package when it meets in closed session this evening in exchange for Pouliot's resignation from the force after ten years. Pouliot was suspended in August for purchasing 250-dollars worth of personal items with the town's credit card, and has remained on medical leave for diabetes. A special audit was ordered in an attempt to locate the 33-thousand-dollars Pouliot's department spent over its budget.
Added:SEPTEMBER 1999
Clark Terry
jazz trumpeter, born 14 Dec. 1920 in St. Louis, Mo. Played in the orchestras of Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet and Count Basie before joining Duke Ellington in 1951 for a long engagement. Later played with Quincy Jones before settling in New York as a staff musician with NBC. Also managed his own jazz orchestra in the 60's and 70's. Evolved his own style to become one of the most distinctive trumpet voices in jazz. Has continued his career as a headline performer and is very active at major jazz festivals and club engagements to this day.SOURCE: Ray Martin
Added:AUGUST 1999
Paddy Devlin
NEWS:August 15 ,1999
Socialist Paddy Devlin Dies BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - Paddy Devlin, a committed socialist who helped found Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic party, died Sunday. He was 74. Devlin died after a lengthy hospitalization in Belfast, his family announced. He had been nearly blind since the early 1990s and suffered a range of ailments because of severe diabetes. A tireless campaigner against sectarianism and violence, Devlin participated in Northern Ireland's first and only experiment in a joint Protestant-Catholic government. As minister for health and human services, Devlin was the second-highest-ranking Catholic in that 1974 administration. But the power-sharing government soon collapsed under the combined weight of a Protestant general strike and Irish Republican Army violence. The British government resumed ``direct rule'' from London, an arrangement that continues today.Last year's Good Friday peace accords call for a new cross-community government but feuding between Northern Ireland's parties has prevented its creation. Born on March 8, 1925, Devlin began political life as an idealistic member of the IRA and served a three-year prison sentence starting in 1942 for membership of the outlawed group. But Devlin renounced violence in prison, and later became a fierce critic of the modern IRA campaign to destabilize Northern Ireland. In 1970, Devlin co-founded the moderate Social Democratic and Labor Party, which since has always won most votes from the province's Catholic minority. But Devlin, a devout socialist, resigned from the party in 1977 in protest that it was appealing too narrowly to Catholic interests at the expense of attracting support from working-class Protestants. ``No one's talking to (Protestants) about the price of a loaf of bread or how much it takes to pay the rent,'' he said in a 1995 interview. ``No one has had any regard for the majority of people here, the Protestants. ... We've scarcely recognized them.'' In 1981, Devlin was forced to abandon his home in his native Catholic west Belfast after facing intimidation from IRA supporters, who were angered by his criticism of the IRA prison hunger strike at the time. He retired from Ireland's major labor union in 1985 and devoted himself to writing, culminating in his 1993 autobiography ``Straight Left,'' a reference to his favored punch in boxing. ``Indeed, I would like to be remembered as a straight left,'' he wrote, ``straight in my dealings with everyone and left in my politics.'' Devlin is survived by his wife, Theresa, two sons and three daughters. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
Arnold W. Webster
NEWS:August 12,1999
Former N.J. Mayor NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A former mayor was sentenced to six months of house arrest for illegally receiving $20,833 in salary from a previous job after he took office. Arnold W. Webster, 68, could have faced up to 16 months in prison. A federal judge granted a request for no incarceration from Webster's lawyer, who noted that the former mayor is blind and suffers from a heart condition and diabetes. Instead, Webster was sentenced to house arrest and three years of probation. U.S. District Judge Alfred Wolin also ordered him to repay all the money and assessed a $1,000 fine. Webster was sworn in as mayor earlier than scheduled and a school computer kept sending him checks for his work as superintendent because it didn't have the new date in its system, Webster's lawyer said.
Little Roy Wiggins
NEWS:August 5,1999 Played steel guitar for Eddy Arnold, has died at age 73.Sitting in on the original Arnold hit "Cattle Call" in 1944 in Nashville, Wiggins began a life-long career playing what music fans called "the crying steel guitar." The cause of death is unknown but Wiggins suffered from diabetes and heart disease.
Richard Bartlett
Director, Actor, Writer, Producer Date of birth (location) 1922. Date of death (details) 1994, Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA.(diabetes) SOURCE: Internet Movie Database
Dort Clark
Actor, Date of birth (location) 1 October 1917, Wellington, Kansas, USA. Date of death (details) 30 March 1989, Wellington, Kansas, USA. (diabetes and cancer) Appeared in the Woody Allen Film, EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX, 1972, played Sheriff. Dort also appeared as a Guest on variety of TV shows. SOURCE: Internet Movie Database
Evelyn Del Rio
Actress,Birth name Evelyn Bernadette Janer ,Date of birth (location) c. 1930, Cantano, Puerto Rico, USA .Date of death (details) 26 November 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA. (diabetes complications) SOURCE: Internet Movie Database
Robert Dorning
Actor, Appeared in the Motion Picture Film RAGTIME, as well as numerous Guest Appearnces on TV. SOURCE: Internet Movie Database
Linda Kozlowski
Actress, Date of birth 1958, In Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. Appeared in Crocodile Dundee (1986) Played.... Sue Charlton. Found Linda's name in a NEWSGROUP On Diabetics.. Has not been substantiated at this time that Linda is indeed a Diabetic.
Lionel Bart
Birth name Lionel Begleiter. Date of birth (location) August 1, 1930 Date of death (details)April 3, 1999, London, England, UK. (Cancer)Composer, The son of a Jewish Tailor in London's working class East End young Lionel had no formal musical education and never learned musical notation but his music teacher at school declared him to be a genius. He gained a scholarship to St Martin's School of Art at age 16 and started work as a set painter in the theatre. When he saw a notice asking for song writers it was to change his life. His new name was inspired on a bus journey past St. Bartholomew's Hospital (affectionately known as Barts). He wrote his first musical in 1958, Wally Pone of Soho. It was not a success. However, the songs he wrote for the early British rock'n'rollers Tommy Steele (Rock With the Caveman and Little White Bull) and Cliff Richard (Living Doll - at No. 1 for 6 weeks in 1959) brought Lionel his first taste of success. His first musical success was with "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be". By the end of 1959 both "Fings" and "Lock Up Your Daughters" were running successfully in London's West End. In June 1960 he opened "Oliver!" which had been turned down by a dozen promoters and had to be financed by Bart himself. An immediate hit it received 16 curtain calls on the opening night and had advanced sales of 30,000 in the first week. Oliver! was followed by other fairly successful shows such as Blitz and Maggie May. Bart was just 30 and earning £16 a minute ! To finance his next musical "Twang!!" (based on the Robin Hood story) he signed away all rights to Oliver! The new show flopped badly and Bart estimated he lost about £100m in that and in the lost rights to Oliver! He filed for bankruptcy in 1972 with debts of £73,000. By the late 1970's his heavy drinking had brought on diabetes. He stopped drinking but one third of his liver had been destroyed. Lionel Bart died aged 68 after suffering cancer for 6 months. SOURCE: Internet Movie Database
Edmund Schulman
dendrochronologist at the University of Arizona, the one who discovered that the
bristlecone pines are the oldest trees in the world. I recently vacationed in Nevada and California. Near the end of the trip I went to the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, in the Inyo National Forest, just east of Bishop CA. This place is astounding. So is the background. Schulman spent much of his career studying old trees. He found 1500-year-old limber pines in Idaho, and dated many of the 3000+ year old giant sequoias. A ranger on the Inyo knew of very old trees in the White Mountains, heard about Schulman's work, and invited him to visit. Schulman first sampled the more vigorous bristlecone pines but could find none older than about 1500 years. One day he ventured up the opposite slope and took a core from a terribly decrepit looking pine. That night in camp, with a microscope and a Coleman lantern, he counted the rings: over 4000. That was in 1953. In subsequent years he found an entire grove with many trees over 4000 years old. The forest service now has a beautifully maintained 4-mile trail starting at the visitor center and winding through a variety of bristlecone habitats, including this most ancient grove. They won't identify the oldest tree, but the grove is awesome. (There was once a 4900 year old bristlecone in eastern Nevada, but it was accidentally cut down for study. Its form was such that no one guessed it was anywhere close to that old.) Schulman continued this work for five years. He wrote an article about it for National Geographic, but died before it was published in March 1958. All the talks and literature at the visitor center only say that he died early, so I asked why. He died of a heart attack -- and he had diabetes. The photographs of him show an obvious ectomorph, so it's a pretty safe assumption that he had what we now call type 1 diabetes. Doing a bit of arithmetic tells that he was 15 years old in 1924. This makes it likely that he was one of the first people saved by insulin, though I haven't been able to discover when he developed diabetes. He may have died early, of a known diabetic complication, but insulin gave him enough life to have an important career. Hearing at age 50 that he died at 49 gave me yet another bit of appreciation for the improved care of the past 40 years. The greatest impact of his work came after his death. The visitor center talks about "The Trees that Rewrote History", and it's only a bit hyperbolic.The carbon-14 dating method, developed in the 1940s, ran into problems around 1960. It agreed entirely with independent dating back about 2000 years. But then researchers found a room in one of the Egyptian pyramids with hieroglyphics which mentioned a solar eclipse, giving an independent date. The C14 dates were off by 700 years! Such inconsistencies built up until someone thought, you know, we've got organic material sitting right here which we can date precisely because we can count the rings. The bristlecone pine samples demonstrated that one of the assumptions behind C14 dating was false: the atmospheric concentration of C14 is not constant. (We now know that it is affected by variations in the earth's magnetic field -- and I assume the related Van Allen belts -- and by variations in the sunspot cycle. C14 is formed when gamma rays from space collide with nitrogen-13 nuclei.) Finally the old pines were used to calibrate the C14 method. In fact the bristlecones can calibrate the method back 8600 years. Dead wood, especially the dense, resinous bristlecone wood, decays incredibly slowly in the White Mountains. There are standing snags which have been dead for 2000 years. And because the bristlecones are highly sensitive to annual weather variations, they form distinctive patterns in the growth rings. By matching the patterns in dead wood which overlap live wood, dendrochronologists can date wood which is older than the oldest living trees. Thus the 8600 year record. But that isn't all. Using the original C14 method, artifacts from all over Europe had been dated. Based on these dates and independent dating of other artifacts, archeologists had constructed a theory of how civilization developed. This is the framework that I learned in school: that civ developed in the Tigris-Euphrates river valleys and then spread through Europe. A closely related theory was that the Egyptians developed the techniques for building with large stones and somehow disseminated this to England, leading to the construction of Stonehenge. But the redating destroyed these theories. Stonehenge predates the pyramids. Artifacts from all over Europe have intermixed dates, with no area being clearly the leader. Tablets from the Balkans are older than those from Mesopotamia. And so on. Thus "the trees that rewrote history".
SOURCE:Edward Reid
