Clifford P. Hansen, 97, a Jackson Hole cattle rancher who became Wyoming's governor and then served two terms as a U.S. senator, died at his home Tuesday after receiving hospital treatment for a broken pelvis. In 1943, he and his fellow ranchers protested the Jackson Hole National Monument.
Lou Jacobi, 95, a longtime character actor, died Friday. The Canadian-born Jacobi died at his home in Manhattan. Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in "The Diary of Anne Frank," playing one of the occupants of the Amsterdam attic. He played the same role in the 1959 film version.
Sheldon J. Segal, 83, leader of the team that developed the contraceptive implant Norplant and other birth-control devices used by millions of women worldwide, died Oct. 17 at his home in Woods Hole, Mass., of congestive heart failure. Segal believed strongly in a woman's right to control her reproduction.
Al Martino, 82, who had string of pop-chart hits in the 1950s and 1960s including "Spanish Eyes" and "Here in My Heart" and later put his baritone to good use as the fading pop star supposedly based on Frank Sinatra in the "The Godfather," died Oct. 13 in a Philadelphia suburb.
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