January
Jan. 1,
Ray Walston, 86, actor
Jan. 4,
Les Brown, 88, bandleader
Jan. 10,
Bryan Gregory, 45, original guitarist for
the Cramps
Jan. 12,
Affirmed, 26, last thoroughbred horse to win the
Triple Crown
Jan. 12,
William Hewlett, 87, co-founder of
Hewlett-Packard
Jan. 13,
Michael Cuccione, 16, member of spoof band on MTV's "
2gether"
Jan. 16,
Virginia O'Brien, 81, actress
Jan. 17,
Gregory Corso, 70, poet
Jan. 17,
Al Waxman, 65, actor
Jan. 21,
Byron de la Beckwith, 80, Klansman convicted of assassinating civil rights leader
Medgar Evers
Jan. 30,
Jean-Pierre Aumont, 90, actor
Jan. 30,
O. Winston Link, 86, photographer
Jan. 31,
Gordon R. Dickson, 77, science fiction writer
February
Feb. 4,
J.J. Johnson, 76,
bebop trombonist and composer
Feb. 4,
Iannis Xenakis, 78, composer
Feb. 5,
Carl Loeffler, 54, curator and founder of
Mamelle and
Artcom
Feb. 7,
Dale Evans, 88, actress-singer and widow of
Roy Rogers
Feb. 7,
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 94, aviator and author
Feb. 10,
Buddy Tate, 87, jazz saxophonist
Feb. 16, The
Great Alanza (Harold Davis), 82, daredevil high-wire artist
Feb. 16,
William Howard Masters, 85, sex researcher
Feb. 18,
Balthus, 92, European
modernist painter
Feb. 18,
Dale Earnhart, 49,
NASCAR race car driver
Feb. 18,
Eddie Mathews, 69, baseball
Hall of Famer
Feb. 19,
Stanley Kramer, 87, film producer
Feb. 20,
Irina Bugrimova, 90, animal tamer; first woman to train lions and tigers
Feb. 20,
Rosemary DeCamp, 90, actress
Feb. 22,
John Fahey, 61, avant-garde acoustic guitarist
Feb. 24,
Claude Shannon, 84, mathematician and computer scientist
Feb. 25,
A.R. Ammons, 75, author
Feb. 27,
Stan Margulies, 80, TV and movie producer
March
March 1,
Henry Wade, 86, former district attorney for Dallas County, TX - most famous as the defendant in
Roe v. Wade
March 5,
Glenn Hughes, 50, "leather guy" from
The Village People
March 8, Dame
Ninette de Valois, 102, dancer and choreographer
March 12,
Morton Downey Jr., 67, TV talk show host
March 12,
Robert Ludlum, 73, suspense novelist
March 15,
Ann Sothern, 92, actress
March 18,
John Phillips, 56, musician from
The Mamas and the Papas
March 22,
William Hanna, 90, animation pioneer
March 23,
Toby Wing, 85, actress
March 29,
John Lewis, 80, pianist, conductor and
Modern Jazz Quartet leader
March 31,
Nakamura Utaemon VI, 84,
Kabuki actor
April
April 1,
Ted McCarty, 91, guitar designer
April 4,
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, 69,
hot rod builder and illustrator
April 7,
Beatrice Straight, 86,
Oscar-winning actress (for "
Network")
April 9,
Nyree Dawn Porter, 61, actress
April 10,
Robert Moon, 83, father of the
zip code
April 11, Sir
Harry Secombe, 79, comedian famous for "
The Goon Show"
April 10,
Willie Stargell, 60, baseball
Hall of Famer
April 12,
Harvey Ball, 79, commercial artist credited with creating the
smiley face
April 14,
Hiroshi Teshigahara, 74, Japanese filmmaker
April 15,
Joey Ramone, 49, rock singer and all-around genius
April 20,
Giuseppe Sinopoli, 54, conductor
May
May 5,
Boozoo Chavis, 70, "King of
Zydeco"
May 5,
Cliff Hillegass, 83, creator of
Cliffs Notes
May 7,
Joseph Greenberg, 85, linguist
May 10,
Deborah Walley, 57, actress
May 12,
Douglas Adams, 49, author
May 12,
Perry Como, 89, singer
May 13,
Jason Miller, 62, playwright and actor
May 13,
R.K. Narayan, 94, author
May 19,
Susannah McCorkle, 55, jazz singer
May 22,
Whitman Mayo, 70, actor (Grady from "
Sanford and Son")
May 24,
Patricia Hilliard Robertson, 38, physician, pilot, and astronaut
May 25,
Alberto Korda, 72, Cuban photographer
May 28,
John Joseph Moakley, Massachusetts politician
May 30,
Frank Biner, 51, singer and
Tower Of Power songwriter
May 31,
Arlene Francis, 93, actress and "
What's My Line?" panelist
June
June 1,
Hank Ketcham, 81,
Dennis The Menace cartoonist
June 1, King
Birendra of Nepal, 55, shot by his son, Crown Prince
Dipendra, in massacre of the royal family
June 2,
Imogene Coca, 92, comedienne and actress
June 3,
Anthony Quinn, 86,
Oscar-winning actor
June 4,
John Hartford, 63, country musician-songwriter
June 7,
Victor Paz Estenssoro, 93, former president of
Bolivia and founder of National Revolutionary Party
June 11,
Timothy McVeigh, 33, terrorist; executed by U.S. government
June 13,
David Spedding, 58, spymaster and former head of Britain's
Secret Intelligence Service
June 21,
Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor best known for his role as
Archie Bunker in "
All in the Family"
June 21,
John Lee Hooker, 80, blues musician
June 23,
Yvonne Dionne, 67, one of the
Dionne quintuplets
June 26,
Margaret Kilgallen, 33, San Francisco graffiti artist
June 27,
Tove Jansson, 86, Finnish author and artist
June 27,
Jack Lemmon, 76,
Oscar-winning actor
June 28,
Mortimer Adler, 98, author of "Great Books of the Western World"
June 30,
Chet Atkins, 74, guitarist
June 30,
Joe Henderson, 64, tenor saxophonist
July
July 3,
Mordecai Richler, 70, author
July 5,
Ely Callaway, 82, golf visionary
July 5,
Hannelore Kohl, 68, wife of former German chancellor
Helmut Kohl
July 11,
Herman Brood, 54, Dutch musician, painter and actor
July 12,
James Bernard, 75, movie score composer and
Oscar-winning screenwriter
July 17,
Katharine Graham, 84, newspaper and magazine publisher
July 18,
Mimi Farina, 56, folk musician and founder of
Bread and Roses
July 20,
Gunther Gebel-Williams, 66, lion tamer extraordinaire
July 23,
Eudora Welty, 92, author
July 27,
Leon Wilkeson, 49,
Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist
July 29,
Elizabeth Yates McGreal, 95, author
July 31,
Poul Anderson, 74, science-fiction author
August
Aug. 2,
Ron Towson, 68, singer and founding member of The
Fifth Dimension
Aug. 3,
Christopher Hewett, actor
Aug. 4,
Lorenzo Music, 64, voice of
Garfield the cat and of
Carlton, the unseen, tipsy doorman on "
Rhoda"
Aug. 6,
Jorge Amado, 88, writer
Aug. 6,
Alan Rafkin, 73,
Emmy-winning director
Aug. 7,
Larry Adler, 87, harmonica player
Aug. 8,
Maureen Reagan, 60, political activist and daughter of President
Ronald Reagan
Aug. 14,
Earl Anthony, 63, bowling champion
Aug. 16,
Floyd Spence, 73, South Carolina politician
Aug. 20,
Fred Hoyle 86, astronomer and science-fiction writer
Aug. 23,
Kathleen Freeman, 78, character actress
Aug. 25,
Aaliyah, 22, singer and actress
Aug. 25,
John Chambers, 78, special-effects makeup artist
Aug. 30,
Julie Bishop, 87, actress
Aug. 31,
Lawrence "Crash" Davis, 82,
minor league infielder made famous by the movie
Bull Durham
September
Sept. 2, Dr.
Christiaan Barnard, 78, first doctor to perform a human-to-human heart transplant
Sept. 2,
Troy Donahue, 65, actor
Sept. 3,
Pauline Kael, 82, movie critic
Sept. 4,
Henry Nasiff, 39, better known as
Hank, the Angry, Drunken Dwarf of
Howard Stern fame
Sept. 5,
Justin Wilson, 87, Cajun chef and storyteller
Sept. 6,
Carl Crack, 30, member of
Atari Teenage Riot
Sept. 11,
David Angell, 54, TV producer
Sept. 11,
Barbara Olson, 45, political commentator and writer
Sept. 12,
Victor Keung Wong, 74, actor
Sept. 16,
Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83, film producer and studio chief
Sept. 22,
Isaac Stern, 81, violinist
Sept. 25,
Lani O'Grady, 46, actress
October
Oct. 5,
Emilie Schindler, 93, humanitarian who, with her husband, helped save 1,000 Jews during WWII
Oct. 7,
Herblock, 91, political cartoonist
Oct. 12,
Otis Young, 69, first African-American with a starring role on a TV Western ("
The Outcasts")
Oct. 23, the Rev.
Howard Finster, artist
Oct. 25, Dr.
Marvin Harris, anthropologist
November
Nov. 6,
Anthony Shaffer, 75, playwright best known for "
Sleuth"
Nov. 9,
Dorothy Dunnett, 78, Scottish novelist
Nov. 10,
Ken Kesey, 66, author
Nov. 12,
Carrie Donovan, 73, fashion editor
Nov. 16,
Tommy Flanagan, 71, bop pianist
Nov. 22,
Mary Kay Ash, 83,
cosmetics magnate
Nov. 22,
Norman Granz, 83, record executive
Nov. 23,
Mary Whitehouse, 91, British media watchdog
Nov. 29,
Budd Boetticher. 85, film director
Nov. 29,
George Harrison, 58, rock musician
Nov. 29,
John Knowles, 75, author
December
Dec. 8,
Don Tennant, 79, ad man who created
Tony the Tiger and
The Marlboro Man
Dec. 15,
W.G. Sebald, 57, author
Dec. 16,
Rufus Thomas, 84, musician and DJ
Dec. 15,
Thuy Trang, 26, actress who played the Yellow Ranger in the "
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" movies
Dec. 19,
Dan DeCarlo, 82,
Archie cartoonist
Dec. 26, Sir
Nigel Hawthorne, 72, British actor
Dec. 31,
Eileen Heckart, 82,
Oscar-winning actress (for "
Butterflies Are Free")
Dec. 31,
Julia Phillips, 57, first woman to win a Best Picture
Oscar (for "
The Sting")
compiled from:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/jenoff/
http://www.youbettheirlife.com
http://www.factmonster.com
http://www.wikipedia.com
http://www.webspan.net/~pokey/
http://dpsinfo.com/dps.html
http://home.kscable.com/yohms/
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