Died

Died: Ali Faraka Toure, 66. a celebrated two-time Grammy Award-winning guitarist and songwriter who was one of Africa's best-known performers, in his sleep after a long illness at his home in Bamako, in his native country, Mali ... Rev. Earl Stallings, 89, a former pastor of the First Baptist Church of Birmingham who was one of the eight White clergy the Rev.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressed in his Letter From Birmingham Jail. in a retirement center Lakeland. FL ... Susie Virginia Ellis. 95, among the first Black school teachers in the Milwaukee Public School System and the first Black woman to become president of American Baptist Church USA of Wisconsin. of natural causes at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home near Milwaukee ... James H. McGee, 87, a former city commissioner who later became Dayton. OH's first Black mayor who served nearly 12 years in office, following a lengthy illness at Covenant House Nursing Home in Dayton ... Narvin Kimball, 97, the last founding member of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band known for his stylings and banjo playing at his daughter's home in Charleston, SC.... Endesha ida Mae Holland, 61, noted playwright and retired professor emeritus at the University of Southern California School of Theater, best known for her critically acclaimed autobiographical play. From The Mississippi Delta, of acute respiratory failure at the Oceanview Convalescent Center in Santa Monica, CA.