Loretta Fuddy

Age: 65

Summary: director of the Hawaii Health Department who became involved in a national controversy over President Barack Obama's birthplace in 2011 when Obama and his personal attorney requested two certified copies of his original birth certificate in an attempt to end claims he was born outside the U.S. after she had approved an exception to a 2001 policy prohibiting photocopies of an original birth certificate.

Cause of Death: Airplane accident

Born: 1948

Died: December 11, 2013

Location: Kalaupapa, Hawaii