Final Exits of 2013

Pakistani Religious Scholar Dies
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/01/pakistani-religious-scholar-dies.html

'Dear Abby' Advice Columnist Dies at 94
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/01/dear-abby-advice-columnist-dies-at-94.html

Legendary White House Reporter Helen Thomas Dead at 92
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/07/legendary-white-house-reporter-helen.html

World's Oldest Man Dies
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/09/worlds-oldest-man-dies.html

Vietnam Mourns General
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/10/vietnam-mourns-general.html

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novelist Oscar Hijuelos Dies at 62
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2013/10/pulitzer-prize-winning-novelist-oscar.html

Music: Final Exits of 2013
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2014/01/music-final-exits-of-2013.html

Politics: Final Exits of 2013
http://post-humous.blogspot.com/2014/01/politics-final-exits-of-2013.html

Dissident Vietnamese Poet Nguyen Chi Thien Dies at 73

Dissident Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien, who memorized his poems while languishing in prison where he was not allowed to write, has died at age 73.

A friend of Thien announced his death this week in Los Angeles, where he had lived since 1995.

Thein was first jailed in 1960 after telling a group of Vietnamese students that World War II ended when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Japan. Official communist-issued textbooks insisted that the war ended by the Russians defeating the Japanese.

Thien spent most of the next 31 years in jails and prison camps, where he memorized his poems and only writing them down after he was released.

His collection, Flowers of Hell won him international awards and honors.

Thien moved to France and later to the United States, where the Vietnamese community in Southern California saw him as a symbol of freedom.

Vietnam's 'Dragon Lady' Dies in Exile

Madame Ngô Đình Nhu and Lyndon Baines Johnson, 12 May 1961.  (Photo: United States Federal Government/LBJ Library)

Vietnam’s 'Dragon Lady' Dies in Exile
Wednesday, 27 April 2011

The woman who was once first lady of the country then known as South Vietnam has died in Rome, where she had been living in exile.

Italian officials announced Wednesday that Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, who served as official hostess to her unmarried brother-in-law, President Ngo Dinh Diem, died on Sunday at an estimated age of 87.

Madame Nhu's husband, the president's brother, had served as head of Vietnam's secret police.

Born Tran Le Xuan, a name meaning “beautiful spring,” she gained a reputation for being assertive and outspoken. Americans nicknamed her “the Dragon Lady” after a character in a popular comic.

She fled into exile after both her husband and the president died in a coup in 1963.