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DIED. ARNOLD WEINSTOCK, 77, industrialist who headed one of Britain's largest conglomerates, General Electric Co. (gec), and ensured its success for 33 years; in Wiltshire, South England. Known for penny-pinching and attention to detail, Lord Weinstock was ousted from gec in 1996 and succeeded by Lord Simpson, who renamed the company Marconi plc and changed its focus to it and communications. A casualty of the dotcom and telecom crash, Marconi plc's value is now around 115 million, which is around 140 million less than what it was worth when Lord Weinstock took the reins in 1963.
RETIRED. MIKA HAKKINEN, 33, two-time Formula One champion; announced in Hockenheim, Germany. Born in Vantaa, Finland, the 'Flying Finn' recovered from a near-fatal crash at the 1995 Australian Grand Prix to go on to win both the 1998 and 1999 Formula One World Championships.
DIED. SALAH SHEHADEH, 48, founder and leader of the military wing of Hamas, fervent supporter of suicide bombings and a possible successor to Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin, in an Israeli air strike; in Gaza City. In the attack, an F-16 warplane fired a 2,000-pound laser-guided bomb at the building where Shehadeh was meeting his family. The strike also killed Shehadeh's wife Leileh, 40, his daughter Iman, 14, and 12 other Palestinians, including 8 children.
DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.'
DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League from its birth in 1943 until 1952; in New Port Richey, Florida. For six seasons, Deegan pitched and played second base for the famed Rockford Peaches, portrayed in the 1992 film A League of Their Own.
NAMED. DR. ROWAN DOUGLAS WILLIAMS, 52, well known academic theologian who was previously Bishop of Monmouth, then Archbichop of Wales, and who became Oxford's youngest professor at age 36, as Archbishop of Canterbury; in London. A poet and prolific author, the most recent of Williams' books is Writing in the Dust: After September 11th. (Williams was two blocks away from the twin towers on Sept. 11.) He succeeds Dr. George Carey, who retires at the end of October after eleven and a half years as Archbishop.
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