Celebritydeaths.net

October 14, 2010: Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, Poland-born, French-American mathematician best known for his work with fractal geometry.
Link: Wikipedia

September 23, 2010: Gerald S. Lesser, 84, US psychologist who was a longtime adviser to the children's television show Sesame Street.
Link: NY Times

September 23, 2010: Malcolm Douglas, 69, West Australian adventurer and conservationist, in a car accident. Douglas was known in Australia as "the original crocodile hunter" for his wildlife documentaries.
Links: Perth Now; Courier-Mail

July 19, 2010: David Warren, 85, Australian-born inventor of the aircraft "black box" data recorder.
Link: NY Times

April 1, 2010: Henry Edward Roberts, 68, US scientist known as the "father of the personal computer". His Altair 8800 machine inspired Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates, who wrote software for it, and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak.
Links: BBC

November 3, 209: Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist, intellectual and author whose books included Tristes Tropiques, The Savage Mind and The Raw and the Cooked.
Links: BBC

September 4, 2009: Rick Nattrass, 59, Australian environmentalist and broadcaster, of a heart attack.
Links: ABC

July 25, 2008: Randy Pausch, 47, US computer scientist, of pancreatic cancer. Knowing he was going to die, the Carnegie Mellon University academic gave a celebrated last lecture advising students to achieve their childhood dreams.
Links: CBS, CNN

April 29, 2008: Albert Hofmann, 102, Swiss scientist who first synthesised lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD).
Links: BBC

January 14, 2008: Judah Folkman, 74, pioneering US cancer researcher.
Links: Boston Globe

November 27, 2007: Robert Cade, 80, US physician who invented the Gatorade Sports drink. At his death, he was professor emeritus of nephrology at the University of Florida.
Links: NY Times

October 26, 2007: Arthur Kornberg, 89, US scientist who won the Nobel prize in 1956 for synthesising DNA.
Links: IHT