Peter Allen
96, Oct. 8 • Successor to Milton Cross (d. 1975) as the authoritative announcer’s voice of the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday matinee radio broadcasts for the next 29 seasons and 500 broadcasts.
Eddie Applegate
81, Oct. 17 • Actor known for playing Patty Lane’s high-school sweetheart on the 1960s The Patty Duke Show.
William L. Armstrong
79, July 5 • Colorado media executive and conservative Republican who served in Congress (1972-1990, including two terms in the Senate, where he was a strong ally to Ronald Reagan). He became a “committed Christian” in the 1970s, was a longtime board member of Campus Crusade for Christ (since renamed Cru), and president of Colorado Christian University from 2006 until cancer felled him this year.
Natalie Babbitt
84, Oct. 31 • Noted children’s author and illustrator, whose 1975 novel Tuck Everlasting led young readers to explore what it might mean to live forever.
Kenneth E. Bailey
85, May 23 • Evangelical scholar, author, and professor who spent 40 years (1955-1995) in the Middle East, learning its history, cultures, and languages, and teaching in -seminaries and institutes in Egypt, Lebanon, Jerusalem, and Cyprus. A Presbyterian, he was known for books like Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes.
David Bald Eagle
97, July 22 • Native American whose varied career included appearances in 40 films, including the 1990 Oscar-award-winning Dances with Wolves. His was tourism’s face of the Lakota people of South Dakota.
Cliff Barrows
93, Nov. 15 • Song leader, music director, and emcee for evangelist Billy Graham’s crusades, from the first one in 1947 in Michigan to the last in 2005 in New York City. Barrows, an ordained Baptist, was a skilled preacher himself and sometimes substituted when Graham fell ill. Graham often told others, “Cliff could just step up and preach a lot better sermon than me because God gave him the gift—not only of organization and music, but also of preaching and teaching.”
Daniel J. Berrigan
94, April 30 • Jesuit priest, roving academic, author, poet, hero of the Catholic left, and militant anti-war activist who with eight fellow Catholics in 1968 seized draft records from a Selective Service office in Maryland and burned them publicly. He eventually served two years in federal prison for the crime.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
93, Feb. 16 • Egyptian Copt and professor-turned-diplomat who served a five-year term as secretary--general of the United Nations during a period of genocides and political friction in the early 1990s. The Clinton administration blocked his bid for a second term.
David Bowie ▼
69, Jan. 10 • Popular British rock star and songwriter, ever epitomizing moderns’ search for spiritual meaning in life and the universe, a quest seemingly left unfinished when he died.
Comments
Steve Shive
Posted: Tue, 01/03/2017 05:04 pmWorth reflecting on this.
DE
Posted: Wed, 01/18/2017 08:30 pmRe: '2016 News of the Year DEATHS'. I am very disappointed with your omission of the death of Keith Emerson, considered to be "perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history"1. Keith, with his Moog synthesizer, single-handedly changed the role of keyboards in rock music forever. Or as Ultimate Classic Rock puts it, "...he did more than anyone else in the rock realm to push keyboards to the forefront as a lead instrument capable of challenging the hegemony of the guitar."2. He and his band, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, were among the pioneers of progressive rock, having sold somewhere between 30 and 48 million records.
1. AllMusic
2. UltimateClassicRock.com
Web Editor
Posted: Thu, 01/19/2017 05:29 pmWORLD did report on Keith Emerson’s death in March. Please see “Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies of apparent suicide.”