Emile Alphonse Griffith (February 3, 1938 – July 23, 2013)

(AP) – Emile Griffith, the elegant world champion whose career was
overshadowed by the fatal beating he gave Bennie Paret in a 1962
title bout that darkened all of boxing, died Tuesday.

He died at an extended care facility in Hempstead, N.Y, according
to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.

Griffith struggled with pugilistic dementia and required full-time care
late in life. He was the very first boxer from the U.S. Virgin Islands to
become world champion and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in
1990.

       
             Dennis Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013)

(Fox News) – Dennis Farina, a onetime Chicago cop who as a popular actor 
played a cop on "Law & Order," has died.

Farina died Monday morning in a Scottsdale, Ariz., hospital after suffering
a blood clot in his lung, according to his publicist, Lori De Waal.

For three decades, Farina was a character actor who displayed remarkable
dexterity, charm and, when called for, toughness, making effective use of
his craggy face, steel-gray hair, ivory smile and ample mustache.

Farina appeared in films including "Get Shorty," ”Saving Private Ryan,"
”Midnight Run" and "Out Of Sight."

Among his many TV portrayals was Detective Joe Fontana on "Law & Order"
during the 2004-06 seasons. He eventually left the show to pursue other
projects. He also starred in the 1980s cult favorite "Crime Story" and was
a regular in the 2011-12 HBO drama "Luck." He recently completed shooting
a comedy, "Lucky Stiff."

First page of the list dated April 18, 1945

Oskar Schindler (28 April 1908 – 9 October 1974)

(Fox News) – No, not a DVD of the 1993 Oscar-winning Steven Spielberg
film, but one of the original Schindler’s lists, the only one ever to go on the
open market, will be publicly auctioned tonight on the popular shopping Web 
site eBay.The reserve price is an eye-popping $3 million. But its sellers, 
California collectors Gary Zimet and Eric Gazin, are hoping it will go for as
high as $5 million.

The “list” was named for Oskar Schindler, a businessman from Germany
who is credited with saving more than 1,000 Jewish refugees from the
Nazis by deeming them essential workers for his enamel-works factories.

Of the seven original versions of the list, only four are known to still exist,
including two in Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum, and
one in the US Holocaust Museum in Washington. The one being offered
for sale on eBay tonight is 14 onion-skin pages long.

Schindler’s enamel factory in Kraków

Chuck Foley

ST. PAUL, Minnesota (AP) – The Minnesota man whose Twister game
launched decades of awkward social interactions at parties has died.

Charles "Chuck" Foley died July 1 at a care facility in the Minneapolis
suburb of St. Louis Park. His son, Mark Foley, said Thursday that his
father had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.

      Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland (January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013)

GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — Singer Bobby "Blue" Bland, who blended Southern
blues and soul in songs such as "Turn on Your Love Light" and "Further on
up the Road," has died.

Bland’s son Rodd said his father died about 5:30 p.m. Sunday at his Memphis
home surrounded by relatives. His son said he died from complications from
an ongoing illness.

Since 2008, Bland had been using a wheelchair to limit his walking but would
stand up at his performances, as he did in November when he sang at his
induction into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

He was inducted in 1992 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which hailed
him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis’ Beale
Street blues scene."