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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2017.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
James Wright Foley (October 18, 1973 – c. August 19, 2014) was an American journalist and video reporter. While working as a freelance war correspondent during the Syrian Civil War, he was abducted on November 22, 2012, in northwestern Syria.
Jerry Foley (1955 – March 10, 2024) was an American television director and producer. He directed the Late Show with David Letterman from 1995 until the end of the show's run. Foley was the executive producer and director of the Live on Letterman concert series before it ended in 2015. [1] [2] He was named Supervising Producer in May 2003.
On December 1, 1952, Foley Sr. died. Despite pressure to give the job to Foley Jr. or another well-known political figure, Governor Paul A. Dever appointed assistant district attorney Garrett H. Byrne. [4] Byrne kept on all of Foley Sr.'s assistant district attorneys, but Foley resigned in July 1953 and joined the firm of Frost and Breath. [2]
Born and raised in Spokane, Washington, Foley was the son of Helen Marie (née Higgins), a school teacher, [4] and Ralph E. Foley (1900–1985), a Superior Court judge for 34 years. [5] He was of Irish Catholic descent on both sides of his family; [ 6 ] his grandfather Cornelius Foley was a maintenance foreman for the Great Northern railroad in ...
Laurence Michael Foley, Sr. (October 5, 1942 – October 28, 2002) was an American diplomat who was assassinated outside his home in Amman, Jordan. Career [ edit ]
Martha Foley (March 21, 1897 – September 5, 1977) was an American writer. She co-founded Story magazine in 1931 with her husband Whit Burnett , and achieved some celebrity by introducing notable authors through the magazine, such as J. D. Salinger , Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright .
Franklin Otis Booth Jr. (September 28, 1923 – June 15, 2008) was an American billionaire newspaper executive and investor. He was a Los Angeles Times executive and early investor in Berkshire Hathaway, which made him a billionaire.