Pierce J. Gerety, Jr.

Age: 56

Summary: Harvard-educated lawyer and deputy director to the U.N. High Commissioner of Refugees who spent most of his life on the scene with refugees in crisis situations in Thailand, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, and Burundi, who had recently directed the refugee efforts connected with bloody regional warfare in the ravaged Great Lakes region of Central Africa, and whose father Pierce J. Gerety, Sr. was the deputy director of the U.S. Department of State's Refugee Relief Program during the administration of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Cause of Death: Killed in Swissair Flight 111 airplane accident

Born: September 7, 1941

Died: September 2, 1998

Location: Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada