PEOPLE WHO PASSED AWAY in MARCH 2013

DEATHS

EUGENE PATTERSON

Eugene Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist who helped fellow Southern whites understand the civil rights movement, eloquently reminding thesilent majority of its complicity in racial violence, died on January 12, 2013 evening at his Florida home. Patterson was editor of the Atlanta Constitution from 1960 to 1968, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1967.

AARON SWARTZ

Internet activist and computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped create an early version of the web feed system RSS and was facing several criminal charges in a controversial fraud case, has committed suicide at age 26, authorities said on January 12, 2013.

Actress, V. J. Sophiya Haque Passes Away in London

Indian actress and popular V. J. Sophiya Haque died in a hospital in London on January 17, 2013. She was 41. Haque was suffering from pneumonia and was undergoing tests during which she is believed to have developed a clot in her lungs and passed away in her sleep. She shot to fame in the 90s and also acted in films like The Rising : Ballad of Mangal Pandey, Pehli Nazar Ka Pehla Pyar; Love at First Sight, Hari Puttar : A Comedy of Terrors and some others.
       

TAMIL WRITER M. S. UDAYAMURTHY

Noted Tamil writer and social activist MS Udayamurthy died on January 21, 2013 following cardiac arrest, family sources said. He was 85. Author of several