Died

Jet, Jan 21, 2008

Percy Zachary, 80, the first Black player at the University of Minnesota to be named All-Big Ten, in Minneapolis ... Terry Armour, 46, an entertainment writer at the Chicago Tribune who was a former sportswriter noted for his coverage of the Chicago Bulls and Michael Jordan, after falling ill at work in Chicago ...

Thomas Morgan III, 56, a former reporter and editor at The New York Times who was a former president of the National Association of Black Journalists, from complications of AIDS in Southampton, MA ... Deborah Tang, 60, who worked at Black Entertainment Television (BET) for 14 years and created its news division and was vice president of news, entertainment and sports programming, of cancer at her home in Washington ... Frank Morgan, 73, a master jazz saxophonist who worked with Lionel Hampton and became a leading figure in the jazz revival in the late 80s, of colon cancer in Minneapolis ... Marvin "Sweet Louie" Smith, 68, who was half of the R & B duo the Checkmates who are best known for the hit Love Is All I Have to Give, aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean on which he was performing ... Isaac Anderson Jr., 61, who became the first Black judge in Lee County and the 20th Judicial Circuit in Florida, after a long battle with cancer in Fort Myers, FL ... Ted Corbitt, 88, known as the father of American distance running and Olympian who once held records in the marathon and the 100-mile run, after a battle with cancer in Houston ... David M. Lewis, 57, a deputy director of photography for The Baltimore Sun, at Howard County General Hospital of medical complications after receiving kidney dialysis at another medical facility in Maryland ... George Washington, 47, an Emmy award-winning television producer and entertainment executive who once worked for "The Judge Mathis Show" and "The Jerry Springer Show," at St. Joseph's Hospital in Chicago.