OBITUARIES

The following people, appearing in volumes 1-18 of the Encyclopedia of World Biography, have died since the publication of the second edition and its volume 18 supplement. Each entry lists the volume where the full biography can be found.

ABZUG, BELLA (born 1920), liberal lawyer and unconventional politician, who worked energetically for civil and women's rights and served three terms as a member of the U.S. Congress, died of complications following heart surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York, March 31, 1998 (Vol. 1).

BLACKMUN, HARRY (born 1908), U.S. Supreme Court justice who became a passionate defender of the right to abortion, died of complications following hip replacement surgery in Arlington, Virginia, March 4, 1999 (Vol. 2).

BRADLEY, TOM (born 1917), first African American mayor of Los Angeles, who won election five times and served a record 20 years in office, died of a heart attack at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, September 29, 1998 (Vol. 2).

CARMICHAEL, STOKELY (born 1941), American civil rights activist who stood at the forefront of the Black Power movement of the 1960s, died of cancer in Conakry, Guinea, November 15, 1998 (Vol. 3).

DIMAGGIO, JOE (born 1914), American baseball star whose 56-game hitting streak with the New York Yankees in 1941 made him an indelible American folk hero, died of lung cancer at his home in Hollywood, Florida, March 8, 1999 (Vol. 5).

HUGHES, TED (born 1930), eminent British poet who led a resurgence of English poetic innovation and was named poet laureate in 1985, died of cancer at his home in North Tawton, England, October 28, 1998 (Vol. 8).

HUSSEIN IBN TALAL (born 1935), third ruler of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, was the longest-ruling monarch of his time and one of the most skillful politicians of the second half of the 20th century, died of cancer in Amman, Jordan, February 7, 1999 (Vol 8).

KUBRICK, STANLEY (born 1928), American film director who won acclaim for films he directed during the 1950s, but was best known for his later work including Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange, died at his home in Hertfordshire, England, March 7, 1999 (Vol 18).

KUROSAWA, AKIRA (born 1910), Japanese film director who was noted for his visually arresting and intellectually adventurous evocations of Japan's mythic past and agonized present, died of a stroke at his home in Tokyo, Japan, September 5, 1998 (Vol. 9).

MARTIN, WILLIAM McCHESNEY, JR. (born 1906), American business executive and federal government official, directed major financial institutions and played a prominent role in shaping national economic policy in the 1950s and 1960s, died of respiratory failure at his home in Washington, DC, July 27, 1998 (Vol. 10).

MURDOCH, IRIS (born 1919), British novelist and philosopher, whose works portrayed characters with warped and dreamlike perceptions of reality, died at a nursing home in Oxford, England, February 8, 1999 (Vol. 11).

POWELL, LEWIS F., JR. (born 1907), U.S. Supreme Court justice who led the moderate center faction during his 15-year tenure, died of pneumonia at his home in Richmond, Virginia, August 25, 1998 (Vol. 12).

ROBBINS, JEROME (born 1918), a major creative force on both the Broadway and ballet stages, who extended the possibilities of musical theater and brought a contemporary American perspective to classical dance, died of a stroke at his home in New York, New York, July 29, 1998 (Vol. 13).

SHEPARD, ALAN (born 1923), the first American in space, whose historic 1961 flight was immortalized in the book and movie, The Right Stuff, died of leukemia at a hospital in Monterey, California, July 21, 1998 (Vol. 14).

WALLACE, GEORGE CORLEY (born 1919), governor of Alabama and presidential candidate who built his political career on segregation, died of respiratory failure and cardiac arrest at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, September 13, 1998 (Vol. 16).

ZHIVKOV, TODOR (born 1911), the Communist ruler of Bulgaria from 1954 until his ouster in 1989, died of complications following a respiratory infection at a hospital in Sofia, Bulgaria, August 5, 1998 (Vol. 16).