Monday, January 10, 2011

Gone In '10

For the fifth year in a row, Wonderful Wonderblog presents a (partial) list of famous people who passed away in the past year. This list comes from Who's Alive and Who's Dead. Visit the website here. Or join the Yahoo! group here. May they rest in peace.

Previous lists --

Gone In '06
Gone In '07
Gone In '08
Gone in '09

January 8 - Art Clokey, animator ("Gumby"), 88.
January 13 - Teddy Pendergrass, soul singer ("Turn Off the Lights"), 59.
January 16 - Glen W. Bell Jr., restaurateur (Taco Bell), 86.
January 19 - Jenn Lyon, TV contestant ("Survivor"), 37.
January 22 - Jennifer Lyn Jackson, glamour model (Playboy), 40.
January 22 - James Mitchell, actor (Palmer Cortlandt on "All My Children"), 89.
January 22 - Jean Simmons, actress ("Spartacus"), 80.
January 22 - Johnny Seven, actor (Lt. Carl Reese on "Ironside"), 83.
January 24 - Pernell Roberts, actor ("Trapper John, M.D."), 81.
January 27 - Zelda Rubinstein, actress ("Poltergeist"), 73.
January 27 - J.D. Salinger, author ("The Catcher in the Rye"), 91.
February 1 - David Brown, film producer ("Jaws"), 93.
February 3 - Frances Reid, actress (Alice Horton on "Days of Our Lives"), 95.
February 9 - Phil Harris, fishing boat captain ("Deadliest Catch"), 53.
February 10 - Charlie Wilson, U.S. Congressman (D-TX, 1973-96), 76.
February 11 - Caroline McWilliams, actress (Marcy Hill on "Benson"), 64.
February 13 - Dale Hawkins, rockabilly singer ("Susie Q"), 73.
February 14 - Doug Fieger, rock singer (The Knack), 57.
February 14 - Dick Francis, racehorse jockey and author ("Dead Cert"), 89.
February 19 - Lionel Jeffries, actor ("Chitty Chitty Bang Bang"), 83.
February 20 - Alexander Haig, U.S. secretary of state (1981-82), 85.
February 25 - Andrew Koenig, actor (Boner on "Growing Pains"), 41.
March 4 - Nan Martin, actress (Mrs. Louder on "The Drew Carey Show"), 82.
March 10 - Corey Haim, actor ("The Lost Boys"), 38.
March 11 - Paul Dunlap, film score composer (The Three Stoges), 90.
March 11 - Merlin Olsen, NFL football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor ("Father Murphy"), 69.
March 13 - Jerry Adler, harmonic player ("High Noon" soundtrack), 91.
March 14 - Peter Graves, actor ("Airplane!"), 83.
March 18 - Fess Parker, actor ("Daniel Boone", 1964-70), 85.
March 24 - Robert Culp, actor (Bill Maxwell on "The Greatest American Hero"), 79.
March 24 - Colleen Kay Hutchins, Miss America 1952, 83.
March 24 - Johnny Maestro, pop singer ("The Worst That Could Happen"), 70.
March 27 - Dick Giordano, comic book artist ("Batman"), 77.
March 28 - June Havoc, actress ("Intrigue"), 97.
April 1 - John Forsythe, actor (Blake Carrington on "Dynasty"), 92.
April 6 - Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet diplomat (ambassador to U.S., 1962-86), 90.
April 6 - Corin Redgrave, actor (British), 70.
April 6 - Eddie Carroll, cartoon voice actor (Jiminy Cricket), 76.
April 9 - Meinhardt Raabe, actor ("The Wizard of Oz"), 94.
April 10 - Dixie Carter, actress (Julia Sugarbaker on "Designing Women"), 70.
April 12 - Peter Haskell, actor ("Child's Play 2"), 75.
April 14 - Peter Steele, rock singer, (Type O Negative), 48.
April 25 - Dorothy Provine, actress ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"), 75.
May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, actress ("Gods and Monsters"), 67.
May 4 - Ernie Harwell, baseball announcer (Detroit Tigers), 92.
May 6 - Robin Roberts, major leaguer (Philadelphia Phillies), 83.
May 6 - David E. Durston, film director ("I Drink Your Blood"), 88.
May 9 - Lena Horne, singer ("Stormy Weather"), 92.
May 10 - Frank Frazetta, comic book artist (Conan), 82.
May 13 - Eddie Garrett, actor (Ed on "Quincy, M.E."), 82.
May 16 - Ronnie James Dio, rock singer (Black Sabbath), 67.
May 24 - Paul Gray, heavy metal bassist (Slipknot), 38.
May 26 - Art Linkletter, TV host ("House Party"), 97.
May 26 - Patricia Stevens, actress (Nurse Baker on "M*A*S*H").
May 28 - Gary Coleman, actor (Arnold on "Diff'rent Strokes"), 42.
May 29 - Dennis Hopper, actor ("Apocalypse Now"), 74.
June 2 - Dorothy DeBorba, actress ("Echo" in "Our Gang"), 85.
June 3 - Rue McClanahan, actress (Blanche Devereaux on "The Golden Girls"), 76.
June 4 - John Wooden, NCAA basketball coach (UCLA), 99.
June 13 - Jimmy Dean, country singer ("Big Bad John") and sausage maker, 81.
June 19 - Manute Bol, NBA basketball player (Washington Bullets), 47.
June 23 - Pete Quaife, rock bassist (The Kinks), 66.
June 23 - Allyn Ferguson, TV & film composer ("Charlie's Angels" theme), 85.
June 23 - Stephen Gilbert, novelist ("Willard"), 97.
June 28 - Robert Byrd, U.S. Senator (D-WV, 1959-2010), 92.
July 1 - Ilene Woods, voice actress ("Cinderella"), 81.
July 4 - Glenn Falkenstein, magician, 78.
July 9 - Vonetta McGee, actress ("Blacula"), 65.
July 12 - Harvey Pekar, comic book writer ("American Splendor"), 70.
July 13 - George Steinbrenner, baseball executive (New York Yankees), 80.
July 15 - Hank Cochran, country-western songwriter ("I Fall to Pieces"), 74.
July 15 - Peter Fernandez, cartoon voice actor (Speed Racer), 83.
July 24 - John Callahan, cartoonist, 59.
July 27 - Corey Allen, actor ("Rebel Without a Cause") and director ("Star Trek: The Next Generation"), 75.
July 27 - Maury Chaykin, actor ("Dances With Wolves"), 61.
July 28 - John Aylesworth, TV producer ("Hee Haw"), 81.
July 28 - Bernie West, TV writer/producer ("Three's Company"), 92.
July 29 - Lorene Yarnell, mime (Shields and Yarnell), 66.
July 30 - Dan Resin, actor ("Caddyshack"), 79.
July 31 - Mitch Miller, bandleader ("Sing Along with Mitch"), 99.
August 2 - Mitch Jayne, bluegrass bassist (Mitch Darling on "The Andy Griffith Show"), 80.
August 7 - Alex Johns, TV producer ("Futurama"), 43.
August 8 - Patricia Neal, actress ("The Day the Earth Stood Still"), 84.
August 8 - Jack Parnell, bandleader ("The Muppet Show"), 87.
August 9 - Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator (R-AK, 1968-2009), 86.
August 10 - David L. Wolper, TV producer ("Roots"), 82.
August 11 - Dan Rostenkowski, U.S. Congressman (D-IL, 1959-95), 82.
August 12 - Richie Hayward, rock drummer (Little Feat), 64.
August 13 - Edwin Newman, TV news correspondent (NBC), 91.
August 14 - Gloria Winters, actress (Penny King in "Sky King"), late 70s.
August 19 - Ahna Capri, actress ("Enter the Dragon"), 66.
August 19 - Christopher Shea, voice actor (Linus in the "Peanuts" cartoons from 1971-75), 52.
August 20 - Jack Horkheimer, astronomer and TV host ("Star Gazer"), 72.
September 1 - Cammie King Conlon, actress ("Gone With the Wind"), 76.
September 3 - Mike Edwards, pop cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), 62.
September 3 - Robert Schimmel, comedian ("Late Night with Conan O'Brien"), 60.
September 4 - Paul Conrad, political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times), 86.
September 7 - Glenn Shadix, actor ("Beetlejuice"), 58.
September 10 - Billie Mae Richards, voice actress ("Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"), 88.
September 11 - Kevin McCarthy, (1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"), 96.
September 11 - Harold Gould, actor (Martin Morgenstern on "Rhoda"), 86.
September 22 - Eddie Fisher, pop singer ("Tell Me Why"), 82.
September 25 - Art Gilmore, voiceover announcer ("Highway Patrol"), 98.
September 26 - Gloria Stuart, actress ("Titanic"), 100.
September 27 - George Blanda, NFL football player (Oakland Raiders), 83.
September 29 - Tony Curtis, actor ("Some Like It Hot"), 85.
September 29 - Greg Giraldo, comedian (Comedy Central roasts), 44.
September 30 - Stephen J. Cannell, TV writer/producer ("The A-Team"), 69.
October 5 - Leona Gage, de-crowned Miss USA 1957, 71.
October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale, actor ("Death on the Nile"), 58.
October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician (fractal geometery), 85.
October 15 - Johnny Sheffield, actor (Boy in "Tarzan" films), 79.
October 16 - Barbara Billingsley, actress (June Cleaver on "Leave It To Beaver"), 94.
October 19 - Tom Bosley, actor (Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days"), 83.
October 20 - Bob Guccione, publisher ("Penthouse"), 79.
October 22 - Alexander Anderson Jr., cartoonist ("Rocky and Bullwinkle"), 90.
October 23 - Leo Cullum, cartoonist ("New Yorker"), 68.
October 27 - Jimmy Wall, actor (Mr. Baxter on "Captain Kangaroo"), 92.
October 28 - James MacArthur, actor (Danno on "Hawaii Five-O"), 72.
November 1 - Charlie O'Donnell, game show announcer ("Wheel of Fortune"), 78.
November 4 - George "Sparky" Anderson, baseball manager (Cincinnati Reds), 76.
November 5 - Jill Clayburgh, actress ("An Unmarried Woman"), 66.
November 5 - Michelle Nicastro, voice actress ("The Swan Princess"), 50.
November 8 - Jack Levine, painter, 95.
November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, film producer ("Serpico"), 91.
November 18 - "Baby" Marie Osborne, silent film actress, 99.
November 19 - Pat Burns, NHL hockey coach (New Jersey Devils), 58.
November 20 - Laurie "Bambi" Bembenek, prison escapee, 52.
November 23 - Ingrid Pitt, horror actress ("The Vampire Lovers"), 73.
November 27 - Irvin Kershner, film director ("The Empire Strikes Back"), 87.
November 28 - John D'Agostino Sr., comic book artist ("Archie"), 81.
November 28 - Leslie Nielsen, actor ("The Naked Gun"), 84.
November 29 - Al Masani, TV show creator ("Entertainment Tonight"), 80.
December 2 - Ron Santo, major leaguer (Chicago Cubs), 70.
December 2 - John Leslie Nuzzo, adult film actor & director, 55.
December 3 - Pamela Bryant, model (Playboy), 51.
December 5 - Don Meredith, NFL football player (Dallas Cowboys) and broadcaster (ABC), 72.
December 15 - Blake Edwards, film director ("The Pink Panther"), 88.
December 15 - Bob Feller, major leaguer (Cleveland Indians), 92.
December 17 - Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart, avant-garde rock musician ("Trout Mask Replica"), 69.
December 20 - Steve Landesberg, actor (Det. Dietrich on "Barney Miller"), 74.
December 22 - Fred Foy, radio announcer ("The Lone Ranger"), 89.
December 26 - Teena Marie, R&B singer ("Lovergirl"), 54.
December 29 - Bill Erwin, actor (Sid Fields on "Seinfeld"), 96.









3 comments:

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Booksteve said...

This is probably the best list like this I've seen this year as far as having folks I actually care about. One notable omission is Christopher Shea, voice of Linus in the early PEANUTS specials including A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS. He died in August but for some reason it got virtually no coverage even around the holidays!

Erick said...

Thanks Steve. I hadn't heard about Mr. Shea's death. There's only a couple of mentions about it on the web. I'll add him to the list.