Recent departures

Henry Allingham, World War I veteran (RAF) and the world's oldest man, born June 6, 1896, 113 (Saturday July 18, in England, presumably of old age.)
Walter Cronkite, former CBS news anchor, the most trusted man in America, 92 (Friday July 17, in New York, of cerebrovascular disease.)
Leszek Kołakowski, Polish philosopher and historian of ideas, 81 (Friday July 17, in Oxford, England, of undisclosed illness.)
Julius Shulman, famous architectural photographer, 98 (Wedensday July 16, in Los Angeles, of natural casues.)
168 passengers and crew of the Caspian Airlines flight 7908, operated with the Soviet-era Tupolew Tu-154 plane (Wednesday July 15, near the Iranian city of Qazvin.)
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish film and stage actor, 75 (Tuesday July 14, in Warsaw, Poland of cancer.)
Sir Edward Downes, conductor of the first-ever performance at Sydney's Opera House, 85 (Friday July 10 - reported this week, in Zurich, Switzerland at an assisted suicide with his wife Joan, 74.)