OBITUARIES
The following people, appearing in volumes 1-19 of the Encyclopedia of World Biography, have died since the publication of the second edition and its supplements. Each entry lists the volumes where the full biography can be found.
BOURGUIBA, HABIB (born 1903), Tunisian statesman, died in Monastir, Tunisia, April 6, 2000 (Vol. 2).
BOWLES, PAUL (born 1910), American author and composer, died of heart failure in Morocco, November 18, 1999 (Vol. 19).
CRAXI, BETTINO (born 1934), Italian prime minister, died of heart failure in Tunisia, January 19, 2000 (Vol. 4).
ELION, GERTRUDE B. (born 1918), American biochemist and Nobel laureate who helped create drugs to treat leukemia and herpes, died at the University of North Carolina Hospital in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, February 21, 1999 (Vol. 5).
FANFANI, AMINTORE (born 1908), Italian prime minister, died in Rome, Italy, November 20, 1999 (Vol. 5).
FARMER, JAMES (born 1920), American civil rights activist who led the 1961 "freedom rides" to desegregate interstate buses and terminals, died of congestive heart failure at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia, July 9, 1999 (Vol. 5).
FERGUSON, HOWARD (born 1908), Irish musician and composer, died in Cambridge, England, November 1, 1999 (Vol. 18).
FUCHS, SIR VIVIAN (born 1908), English explorer and geologist who led the first expedition to cross Antarctica by land, died in Cambridge, England, November 11, 1999 (Vol. 6).
GORBACHEV, RAISA MAXIMOVNA (born 1932), first lady of the Soviet Union and wife of President Mikhail Gorbachev, died of leukemia in Muenster, Germany, September 20, 1999 (Vol. 6).
HASSAN II (born 1929), Moroccan king who was a voice of moderation in Middle Eastern politics during his 38-year reign, died of pneumonia at Avicennes Hospital in Rabat, Morocco, July 23, 1999 (Vol. 7).
HELLER, JOSEPH (born 1923), American author whose novel, Catch-22, defined the paradox of the no-win situation, died of heart failure in East Hampton, New York, December 12, 1999 (Vol. 7).
HUNDERTWASSER, FRIEDENSREICH (born 1928), Austrian-born painter and spiritualist, died of heart failure while on board the cruise ship, Queen Elizabeth II, February 19, 2000 (Vol. 8).
KIRKLAND, JOSEPH LANE (born 1922), American labor leader who served as president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995, died of lung cancer in Washington, DC, August 14, 1999 (Vol. 9).
KNIPLING, EDWARD (born 1909), American entomologist, died in Arlington, Virginia, March 17, 2000 (Vol. 9).
NKOMO, JOSHUA MQABUKO (born 1917), vice president of Zimbabwe and a leader of his country's struggle for independence from colonial rule, died of prostate cancer in Harare, Zimbabwe, July 1, 1999 (Vol. 11).
OGILVY, DAVID MACKENZIE (born 1911), American advertising executive who founded the international advertising agency Ogilvy and Mather, died in Touffou, France, July 21, 1999 (Vol. 11).
POWELL, ANTHONY (born 1905), English novelist, died in Frome, England, March 28, 2000 (Vol. 12).
SARRAUTE, NATHALIE TCHERNIAK (born 1900), French novelist who gained fame as a member of the "Nouveau Roman" movement in the late 1950s, died in Paris, France, October 19, 1999 (Vol. 13).
SCHULZ, CHARLES (born 1922), American cartoonist who created the "Peanuts" comic strip, died of colon
cancer in Santa Rosa, California, February 12, 2000 (Vol. 14).
SEABORG, GLENN THEODORE (born 1912), American chemist who discovered ten atomic elements and was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1951, died in Lafayette, California, February 25, 1999 (Vol. 14).
SOBCHAK, ANATOLY (born 1937), Russian politician who was elected mayor of St. Petersburg in 1990, died of heart failure in Kaliningrad, Russia, February 20, 2000 (Vol. 14).
TIMERMAN, JACOBO (born 1923), Argentine author who chronicled his experiences as a political prisoner, died of heart failure in Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 11, 1999 (Vol. 15).
TUDJMAN, FRANJO (born 1922), Croatian president who led his country to independence from Yugoslavia and became its first popularly elected leader, died in Zagreb, Croatia, December 10, 1999 (Vol. 15).
ZUMWALT, ELMO (born 1920), American naval officer who commanded U.S. forces in Vietnam, died in Durham, North Carolina, January 2, 2000 (Vol. 16).