Tim Vakoc - Priest Injured in Iraq

Tim Vakoc, 49, a Roman Catholic Priest from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Archdiocese died on June 22, 2009 from injuries he sustained from a roadside bomb while serving as an Army chaplain in Iraq. He died in a nursing home in the suburb of New Hope, MN.

Rev. Vakoc was injured in a roadside blast on May 29, 2004 while returning from celebrating mass with troops near Mosul. The injury cost him an eye and severely damaged his brain. The Major was hospitalized for four months at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington D.C. before being transferred in a near-coma to the Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Minneapolis in October 2004.

After many surgeries and infections, he was able to communicate with squeezes to the hand or a slight smile. In the fall of 2006, he was able to speak for the first time in 2.5 years.

The native of Robbindale, MN served as a parish priest before becoming an Army chaplain in 1996. He served previously in Germany and Bosnia, shipping out to Iraq shortly before his 44th birthday.

Jerry Rosenberg - Inmate

Jerry Rosenberg, a convicted killer of two police officers and a noted jailhouse lawyer died on June 1, 2009 at the age of 72. He was serving a life sentence for the 1962 killing of two police detectives during a botched robbery in Brooklyn, NY.

He was originally sentenced to death and was hours away from execution in 1964 when his sentence was changed to life in prison. He subsequently earned a law degree in 1967, becoming the first inmate in New York to do so.

In 1971 he was shot and beaten during the takeover of Attica State Prison. He served as an inmate negotiator during the ordeal which lead to the death of 11 prison employees and 32 convicts.

By his own count, he filed over 200 lawsuits on behalf of fellow inmates. Tony Danza played him in the television movie "Doing Life".

John Ross - WWI Veteran

John Ross, the oldest man in Australia and its last remaining World War I veteran, died on June 3, 2009 at the age of 110. He enlisted in the army at the age of 18 in February 1918. The war ended before he could be sent overseas. He was discharged on Christmas Eve, 1918.

During World War II, he served in the nation's volunteer defense corps. He spent 45 years working for the Victorian Railway before retiring in 1964.

Bernard Baker - Watergate Burglar

Bernard Baker, who was convicted of breaking into the Democratic Party's National Headquarters at the Watergate building, died at the age of 92 on June 5, 2009.

Mr Baker was a Cuban-born American who was recruited for various undercover operations during President Richard Nixon's administration by E. Howard Hunt. Barker was involved with Hunt and the C.I.A. in planning the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.

He was also involved in the 1971 break-in at the Los Angels office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg who disclosed the Pentagon Papers to the press.

Mr Barker was convicted of the Watergate break-in along with four others. After a series of appeals, he served approximately three months before being released in January 1974. He returned to the Miami area where he served as a city sanitation inspector and later as a building inspector.

In later years, he continued to express no regrets about his prior actions and felt they were in the interest of national security.

Charles Albury - Co-Pilot

Charles Albury, 88, died from congestive heart failure on May 23, 2009 in Orlando, Florida. He was the co-pilot of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.

He was a witness to the first bombing of Hiroshima three days earlier as the pilot of a support plane which dropped a set of scientific instruments to measure the magnitude of the blast and the level of radiation.

The 10,200 pound bomb dropped on Nagasaki instantly killed an estimated 40,000 people and another 35,000 who later died from injuries and radiation. Mr Albury would later say that his actions helped put an end to World War II and saved countless lives.

After the war, he settled in the Coral Gables, Florida area with his wife of 65 years. He spent his working years with Eastern Airlines.