did he take fever and die of small pox? and dio and this guy died but who else died? thought it was just those two...
I bolded the ones that would typically fall in to my "who died?" interests.
May 2010
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* John William Finn, 100, American naval officer, oldest living Medal of Honor recipient. [1]
26
* Jean Constantin, 82, Romanian actor, natural causes. [2] (Romanian)
* Jesse Hockett, 26, American sprint car racer, electrocution. [3]
* Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-born American radio and television personality (House Party, People are Funny), natural causes. [4]
* Sir Christopher Moran, 54, British Air Chief Marshal, suspected heart failure. [5]
* Kieran Phelan, 60, Irish senator. [6]
* Jarvis Williams, 45, American football player (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants), heart attack. [7]
25
* Alexander Belostenny, 51, Ukrainian basketball player, lung cancer. [8]
* Alan Hickinbotham, 84, Australian football player and businessman. [9]
* Michael H. Jordan, 73, American business executive, complications of cancer. [10]
* Silvius Magnago, 96, Italian politician, Governor of the Province of Bolzano-Bozen (19601989). [11] (German)
* Siphiwo Ntshebe, 34, South African opera singer, meningitis. [12]
* Gabriel Vargas, 95, Mexican cartoonist. [13]
24
* Ray Alan, 79, British ventriloquist, respiratory failure. [14]
* Virendra Bhatia, 63, Indian politician, after short illness. [15]
* Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Indian actor (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne), cardiac arrest. [16]
* Paul Gray, 38, American heavy metal bassist (Slipknot). [17]
* Raymond V. Haysbert, 90, American business executive and civil rights leader, member of Tuskegee Airmen, heart failure. [18]
* Sandra Herold, 72, American owner of chimpanzee Travis, ruptured aortic aneurysm. [19]
* Masao Kimura, 68, Japanese professional wrestler, aspiration pneumonia. [20]
* Morrie Martin, 87, American baseball player, lung cancer. [21]
* Rogelio Martinez, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [22]
* Petr Muk, 45, Czech pop singer. [23] (Czech)
* Katherine Reback, 59, American screenwriter (Fools Rush In), complications from cancer. [24]
* Anneliese Rothenberger, 83, German opera singer. [25]
23
* Beaver, 59, New Zealand jazz singer, sarcoma. [26]
* Beto, 43, Portuguese singer, stroke. [27] (Portuguese)
* Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess. [28]
* David Ginsburg, 98, American lawyer and political insider, heart failure. [29]
* Vincent Kinchin, 42, British grasstrack rider, race crash. [30]
* José Lima, 37, Dominican baseball player, heart attack. [31]
* Simon Monjack, 39, British screenwriter, suspected heart attack. [32]
* Mikhail Shatrov, 78, Russian screenwriter and playwright. [33]
* Gane Todorovoski, 81, Macedonian writer and academician. [34]
* Wee Willie Webber, 80, American radio and television personality, heart attack. [35]
22
* Martin Gardner, 95, American mathematics and science author. [36]
* Hasri Ainun Habibie, 72, Indonesian First Lady (19981999), cervical cancer. [37]
* Peter Hall, 88, New Zealand flying ace. [38]
* Keith Jessop, 77, British deep sea diver and marine treasure hunter. [39]
* Josef Koukl, 83, Czech Roman Catholic Bishop of Litoměřice (19892003). [40]
* Michael Kuchwara, 63, American theater critic (Associated Press), idiopathic ischemic lung disease. [41]
* Buz Lukens, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (19671971; 19871990), cancer. [42]
* Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, 39, South African clan leader, ruler of Western Thembuland. [43]
* Veturi Sundararama Murthy, 74, Indian poet and lyricist, cardiac arrest. [44]
21
* Adrian Cruickshank, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (19841999). [45]
* Stan Jones, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears), complications from a stroke. [46]
* Howard Post, 83, American cartoonist and animator. [47]
* Robert Gordon Rogers, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (19831988). [48]
* Madan Tamang, 62, Nepali politician, President of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, stabbed. [49]
* Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage. [50] (Dutch)
20
* Karin Iten, 53, Swiss figure skater. [51] (German)
* Kennedy Kiliku, 57, Kenyan politician. [52]
* Gesang Martohartono, 92, Indonesian singer-songwriter. [53] (Indonesian)
* Hugh Morris, New Zealand businessman, founder of McDonalds New Zealand. [54]
* Breandán Ó Buachalla, 74, Irish academic, Irish language scholar, heart attack. [55]
* Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born American mathematician, Parkinsons disease. [56]
* Alberto Valcárcel Acuña, 65, Peruvian poet, after long illness. [57] (Spanish)
* Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, 82, British businessman, philanthropist and life peer. [58].
19
* Martin Cohan, 77, American television writer (Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?), large cell lymphoma. [59]
* Fabio Polenghi, 48, Italian photojournalist, shot. [60]
* Horácio Roque, 66, Portuguese financier, founder of Banco Internacional do Funchal, stroke. [61]
* Moishe Rosen, 78, American Baptist minister, founder of Jews for Jesus, after long illness. [62]
* Harry Vos, 63, Dutch footballer, cancer. [63] (Dutch)
18
* Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect. [64]
* Martha Bielish, 94, Canadian politician, Senator (19791990). [65]
* Don Day, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales Minister for Agriculture (19781980). [66]
* Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian poet, complications following abdominal aneurysm surgery. [67]
* Jim Selim, 68, Australian businessman, founder of Pan **************s, leukaemia. [68]
* Willie Zapalac, 89, American football coach. [69]
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* Víctor Selvino Arenhart, 61, Argentine Roman Catholic Bishop of Oberá (since 2009). [70]
* Bob Breitbard, 91, American sports team owner (San Diego Rockets, San Diego Gulls), natural causes. [71]
* Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (19691974). [72] (German)
* Richard Gregory, 86, British psychologist. [73]
* Dorothy Kamenshek, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 19431952). [74]
* Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist, composer and teacher, widow of Olivier Messiaen. [75]
* Mukhran Machavariani, 81, Georgian poet, heart attack. [76]
* Rafael Nantes, 53, Filipino politician, helicopter crash. [77]
* Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai renegade general, advisor to the Red Shirts, shot. [78]
* Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, cardiac arrest. [79]
* Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser. [80]
* George Terlep, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills) and head coach. [81]
* Carla Zilbersmith, 47, Canadian-born American actress, singer and comedian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [82]
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* Andre Baker, 45, British professional wrestler and promoter (NWA UK Hammerlock). [83]
* Bernard Bihari, 78, American physician, proponent of alternative medicine. [84]
* Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist. [85] (Spanish)
* Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), stomach cancer. [86]
* Alfonso Escámez, 94, Spanish banker. [87] (Spanish)
* Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist. [88]
* Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, Honduran politician, President (19631971, 19721975), prostate cancer. [89]
* Jack Lupton, 83, American Coca-Cola Bottling Co. heir and Lyndhurst Foundation philanthropist, complications of a stroke. [90]
15
* Harry Aleman, 71, American mobster and convicted murderer, lung cancer. [91]
* Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Haitian politician, Minister of Education (20062008), heart attack. [92]
* Jim Burnett, 62, American chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (19821988), complications of diabetes. [93]
* Armand Caouette, 64, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (19741980). [94] (French)
* Moshe Greenberg, 81, American rabbi. [95]
* Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer, heart attack. [96]
* Loris Kessel, 60, Swiss racing driver, leukemia. [97] (German)
* Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austrian nobleman, youngest son of Emperor Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. [98] (German)
* John Shepherd-Barron, 84, British inventor of the ATM. [99]
* Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, Indian politician, Vice-President (20022007), respiratory infection. [100]
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* Frank J. Dodd, 72, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (19741975). [101]
* Goh Keng Swee, 91, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (19681985), after long illness. [102]
* Norman Hand, 37, American football player (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints), heart disease. [103]
* David Maimon, 81, Israeli general, head of Israel Prison Service. [104]
* Fred O'Donovan, 80, Irish theatre producer, Chairman of RTÉ Authority (19811985). [105]
* Skip Away, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack. [106]
* Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, 70, South African politician, complications from liver disease. [107]
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* Rafael Sanus Abad, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (19892000). [108]
* Ashaari Mohammad, 73, Malaysian spiritual leader, respiratory infection. [109]
* Eddie Garrett, 82, American actor (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Quincy M.E.). [110]
* Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento, 46, Brazilian politician, Education Secretary (Amazonas), air crash. [111]
* Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official. [112] (German)
* Dick Movitz, 84, American Olympic alpine skier. [113]
* Peter Provan, 73, Australian rugby league footballer, Balmain Tigers premiership captain (1969), after long illness. [114]
* Rosa Rio, 107, American organist (Tampa Theater). [115]
12
* Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman, choking. [116]
* Phyllis Hodges Boyce, 73, American actress (Gone with the Wind, Star Trek). [117]
* Frans Dreyer, 50, Dutch businessman, CEO of VAStech, air crash. [118]
* Charlie Francis, 61, Canadian track coach, lymphoma. [119]
* Antonis Karkayiannis, 78, Greek journalist and newspaper publisher (Kathimerini). [120] (Greek)
* Ray Laurent, 79, New Zealand Olympic rower. [121]
* Sione Manu'uli Luani, 50, Tongan politician, Governor of Vava'u (since 2009). [122]
* Allan Manings, 86, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times), cardiac arrest. [123]
* Joëlle van Noppen, 30, Dutch singer, air crash. [124]
* Bree O'Mara, 42, South African novelist, air crash. [125]
* Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer. [126] (Spanish)
* Mel Perry, 75, Canadian curler. [127]
* Norbert Taferner, 70, Austrian general manager of Global Aviation, air crash. [128]
* Berry van Assouw, 49, Dutch businessman, air crash. [129]
11
* Robert H. Burris, 96, American biochemist. [130]
* Tim Grubb, 55, British-born American show jumper, Olympic silver medallist, heart failure. [131]
* Rauf Jabbarov, 74, Azerbaijani boxing manager, myocardial infarction. [132] (Azerbaijani)
* Maciej Kozłowski, 52, Polish actor, complications of hepatitis C. [133] (Polish)
* Richard LaMotta, 67, American creator of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich, heart attack. [134]
* Jeff Leadley, 55, English sports car racer, race crash. [135]
* Bud Mahurin, 91, American flying ace, complications from a stroke. [136]
* Emmanuel Ngobese, 29, South African footballer, tuberculosis. [137]
* Jeff Shaw, 60, Australian politician and jurist, NSW Attorney General (19952000), Supreme Court judge (20032004), pneumonia. [138]
* Doris Eaton Travis, 106, American performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, aneurysm. [139]
* Bob Watt, 82, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) ice hockey player. [140]
10
* Ike Franklin Andrews, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (19731985). [141]
* Albert W. Barney, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (19741982). [142]
* Giuliana Camerino, 90, Italian handbag designer. [143]
* Charles Currey, 94, British sailor, silver medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics. [144]
* Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke. [145]
* Bill Hook, 84, American-born chess player for British Virgin Islands. [146]
* Margit Hvammen, 77, Norwegian Olympic Alpine skier. [147] (Norwegian)
* Mac Mohan, 71, Indian actor (Sholay), lung cancer. [148]
* Stephen Perry, 55, American television writer (ThunderCats, SilverHawks), homicide. [149]
* Volodymyr Ploskina, 55, Ukrainian football manager and former footballer. [150]
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* Danger Ashipala, 62, Namibian police advisor. [151]
* Erica Blasberg, 25, American professional golfer. [152]
* Raymond Bouchex, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Avignon (19782002). [153]
* Dean Cetrulo, 91, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) fencer. [154]
* Rita Childers, 95, Irish politician, wife of President Erskine Hamilton Childers. [155]
* Zosima Davydov, 46, Russian Orthodox Bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk (since 2004), heart attack. [156] (Russian)
* Hans Dijkstal, 67, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister (1994-1998), cancer. [157] (Dutch)
* Francisco Andrés Escobar, 67, Salvadorian actor, journalist and writer. [158] (Spanish)
* Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz). [159]
* Signe Johansson-Engdahl, 104, Swedish Olympic diver. [160] (Swedish)
* Farzad Kamangar, 32, Iranian activist, execution. [161]
* Simon Gatiba Karanja, 56, Kenyan police officer, director of CID, respiratory failure. [162]
* Craig Kauffman, 78, American painter and sculptor, complications from a stroke and pneumonia. [163]
* Teruji Kogake, 77, Japanese Olympic athlete, liver failure. [164]
* Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian Jain religious leader, supreme head of Svetambar Terapanth, cardiac arrest. [165]
* Otakar Motejl, 77, Czech Ombudsman (since 2000), after short illness. [166]
* Bill Passell, 79, American Grand Life Master bridge player, multiple myeloma. [167]
* Bill Stanton, 86, American-born Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders). [168]
* Edward Uhl, 92, American co-inventor of the bazooka, heart failure. [169]
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* Bruce Alford, Sr., 87, American football player (New York Yanks), and line judge, cancer. [170]
* Florrie Baldwin, 114, British supercentenarian. [171]
* Shadreck Biemba, 45, Zambian footballer, cancer. [172]
* Joaquín Capilla, 81, Mexican Olympic diving four-time medalist, heart failure. [173]
* Sir Cecil Clothier, 90, Manx judge and public servant. [174]
* Ken Haynes, 76, Scottish radio presenter and disc jockey, after short illness [175]
* Stefanos Lazaridis, 67, British stage designer, cancer. [176]
* Andor Lilienthal, 99, Russian-born Hungarian chess grandmaster. [177] (Hungarian)
* Carlos Humberto Salinas Midence, 54, Honduran journalist, shot. [178] (Spanish)
* Mark Shannon, 58, American radio personality (KTOK), lymphoid leukemia. [179]
* Feodor Skripchenko, 74, Moldovan chess player, cancer. [180]
* Alan Watkins, 77, British political journalist, renal failure. [181]
7
* Francisco Aguabella, 84, Cuban-born American jazz percussionist, cancer. [182]
* Juan Arcocha, 83, Cuban writer. [183] (Spanish)
* Rane Arroyo, 55, American poet, cerebral hemorrhage. [184]
* Anders Buraas, 94, Norwegian journalist. [185] (Norwegian)
* Babz Chula, 64, American actress, cancer. [186]
* Dave Fisher, 69, American folk singer (The Highwaymen), myelofibrosis. [187]
* Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia. [188]
* Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (19691970), Governor of Alaska (19661969, 19901994), natural causes. [189]
* Billy Kelly, 78, British boxer, after long illness. [190]
* Zoran Kurte, 44, Serbian handball player and coach, cardiac arrest. [191] (Romanian)
* Adele Mara, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima), natural causes. [192]
* Rodolfo Paredes, 46, Chilean journalist and television presenter, heart attack. [193] (Spanish)
* Flora L. Thornton, 96, American arts patron and philanthropist, pulmonary disease. [194]
* Dennis Tinerino, 64, American bodybuilder, actor, and evangelist, stomach cancer. [195]
6
* Hoàng Cầm, 88, Vietnamese poet and playwright. [196] (Vietnamese)
* Rhonda Copelon, 65, American attorney, ovarian cancer. [197]
* David E. Durston, 88, American film director and screenwriter (I Drink Your Blood), complications from pneumonia. [198]
* Nina King, 68, American editor (The Washington Post), complications from Parkinson's disease. [199]
* Nikolaos Matsaniotis, 85, Greek professor of paediatrics, General Secretary of Academy of Athens (19982010). [200] (Greek)
* Guillermo Meza, 21, Mexican footballer (Pumas Morelos), shot. [201]
* Giacomo Neri, 94, Italian footballer. [202] (Italian)
* Mildred Ellen Orton, 99, American co-founder of the Vermont Country Store. [203]
* Romain Poté, 74, Belgian Olympic athlete. [204] (German)
* Robin Roberts, 83, American baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), natural causes. [205]
* Robert J. Serling, 92, American author, brother of Rod Serling. [206]
5
* Lucho Barrios, 76, Peruvian bolero singer. [207]
* Ray Blum, 91, American Olympic speed skater. [208]
* Marcello Costalunga, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Aquileia (19912001). [209]
* Joseph Kearney, 83, American athletic director, pancreatic cancer. [210]
* André Lamy, 77, Canadian film producer, Chairman of the National Film Board (19751979). [211]
* Armando Lucero, 68, Argentine sex offender, respiratory infection. [212]
* Jack MacDonald, 82, Canadian politician, Mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (1977-1980), after long illness. [213]
* Gul Makai Osmani, Afghan lawmaker and politician, shot. [214]
* Max Palevsky, 85, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector. [215]
* Nyleptha Roberts, 112, American supercentenarian. [216]
* Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian mezzo-soprano singer. [217]
* Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas, 96, Canadian crime reporter (Toronto Star), natural causes. [218]
* Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, Nigerian politician, President (20072010), after long illness. [219]
4
* David Apter, 85, American political scientist, complications of cancer. [220]
* Brita Borg, 83, Swedish actress, singer and variety show artist. [221]
* Roy Carrier, 63, American zydeco musician, complications from lung cancer. [222]
* Danny Chandler, 50, American motocross champion, complications from paralysis. [223]
* Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest. [224]
* Sheena Duncan, 77, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, after long illness. [225]
* Ernie Harwell, 92, American baseball sportscaster (Detroit Tigers), cancer. [226]
* Peter Heathfield, 81, British trade unionist. [227]
* Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver. [228]
* William Lubtchansky, 73, French cinematographer, heart disease. [229]
* Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [230]
* Nick Rogers, 30, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), auto accident. [231]
* Dustin Shuler, 61, American sculptor (Spindle), pancreatic cancer. [232][233]
* Hadi Soesastro, 65, Indonesian economist and public intellectual, brain hemorrhage. [234]
* El Supremo, 59, Mexican professional wrestler. [235]
* Peter Varvaressos, 63, Greek-born Australian footballer, director of Sydney Olympic. [236]
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* Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, 73, Moroccan philosopher and writer. [237]
* Luigi Amaducci, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia (19902000). [238]
* Charles C. Barham, 75, American politician, Louisiana State Senator (19641972, 19761988), cancer. [239]
* Kirt Bennett, 42, American businessman, stroke. [240]
* Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chess player, President of FIDE (19821995). [241]
* Jack Friedman, 70, American businessman, co-founder of Jakks Pacific. [242]
* Jimmy Gardner, 85, British character actor. [243]
* Karl Kasten, 94, American painter. [244]
* Stephen Ledogar, 80, American arms control negotiator, bladder cancer. [245]
* James Leeson, Jr., 79, American journalist, suicide by gunshot. [246]
* Merv McIntosh, 87, Australian football player, heart attack. [247]
* Peter O'Donnell, 90, British writer (Modesty Blaise). [248]
* Kinji Shibuya, 88, American professional wrestler and actor (Mr. T and Tina), natural causes. [249]
* Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American NASA spacecraft engineer, heart failure and stroke. [250]
2
* Ann Aldrich, 82, American federal judge. [251]
* Kama Chinen, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest living person. [252]
* Moshe Hirsch, 86, Israeli anti-Zionist Neturei Karta rabbi, Palestinian National Authority Minister for Jewish Affairs, after long illness. [253]
* Andrew McFarlane, 32, Australian motocross racer, accident during practice. [254]
* Bohumil Němeček, 72, Czech boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960). [255]
* Murray Nicoll, 66, Australian journalist and broadcaster, Ash Wednesday fires commentator, leukaemia. [256]
* Lynn Redgrave, 67, English actress (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters), breast cancer. [257]
1
* Danny Aiello III, 53, American stunt performer, pancreatic cancer. [258]
* T. M. Aluko, 91, Nigerian writer. [259]
* Don Caruth, 59, American politician, minority leader of the West Virginia Senate, brain cancer. [260]
* Jean-Louis Dumas, 72, French businessman, Hermès group chairman (19782006). [261]
* Antoine Hayek, 81, Lebanese Melkite prelate, Archbishop of Baniyas (19892006). [262]
* Zygmunt Kamiński, 77, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (19992009). [263]
* Rob McConnell, 75, Canadian jazz musician, cancer. [264]
* Lawrence Paul, 84, Canadian Mi'kmaq leader, chief of the Membertou First Nation (19671969). [265]
* Alexey Sisakyan, 65, Russian physicist, head of Dubna Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. [266] (Russian)
* Robert Vines, 45, American basketball executive (Boston Celtics), cardiac arrest. [267]
* Helen Wagner, 91, American actress (As the World Turns). [268]