It's about time I finished putting this list together! It seems to get later and later each year. This is the 6th year I've done a "Gone In" post featuring some of the notable deaths from the previous year. This list comes from
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January 2 - Anne Francis, actress ("Forbidden Planet"), 80
January 2 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor ("The Usual Suspects"), 64
January 4 - Gerry Rafferty, pop musician ("Right Down the Line"), 63
January 11 - David Nelson, actor ("The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet"), 74
January 14 - Susannah York, actress ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"), 72
January 17 - Don Kirshner, recording artist & songwriter's manager (The Monkees), 76
January 18 - Sargent Shriver, political figure (1972 Democratic vice-presidential nominee), 95
January 21 - Tony Geiss, TV writer ("Sesame Street"), 86
January 23 - Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, 96
January 27 - Charlie Callas, comedian, 83
January 31 - John Barry, film music composer ("Goldfinger"), 77
February 4 - Tura Satana, actress ("Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"), 76
February 6 - Gary Moore, rock guitarist (Thin Lizzie), 58
February 11 - Betty Garrett, actress (Edna Babish in "Laverne and Shirley"), 91
February 11 - Chuck Tanner, major-league manager (Pittsburgh Pirates), 82
February 12 - Kenneth Mars, actor ("Young Frankenstein"), 75
February 12 - Bridgett Rollins, model ("Playboy"), 54
February 14 - David F. Friedman, horror film producer ("Blood Feast"), 87
February 14 - John Strauss, composer ("Car 54, Where Are You?" theme), 90
February 16 - Len Lesser, actor (Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld"), 88
February 21 - Dwayne McDuffie, comic book writer (Milestone Media), 49
February 22 - Nicholas Courtney, actor (The Brigadier on "Doctor Who"), 81
February 27 - Duke Snider, major leaguer (Brooklyn Dodgers), 84
February 28 - Jane Russell, actress ("The Outlaw") and Playtex bra spokewsoman, 89
March 4 - Johnny Preston, pop singer ("Running Bear"), 71
March 6 - Jean Bartel, Miss America 1943, 87
March 8 - Mike Starr, heavy metal bassist (Alice in Chains), 44
March 11 - Hugh Martin Jr., songwriter ("Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"), 96
March 17 - Michal Gough, actor ("Batman"), 94
March 17 - Ferlin Husky, country singer ("Gone"), 85
March 18 - Warren Christopher, U.S. secretary of state (1993-97), 85
March 23 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress ("Cleopatra"), 79
March 26 - Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. vice-presidential nominee (D, 1984), 75
April 9 - Sidney Lumet, film director ("Network"), 86
April 11 - Angela Scoular, actress ("On Her Majesty's Secret Service"), poisoned (apparent suicide), 65
April 13 - Hunter Bryce, porn actress, 30
April 14 - Trevor Bannister, actor (Mr. Lucas on "Are You Being Served?"), 76
April 14 - Jon Cedar, actor (Corporal Langenscheidt on "Hogan's Heroes"), 80
April 16 - Sol Saks, TV writer ("Bewitched"), 100
April 19 - Elisabeth Sladen, actress (Sarah Jane Smith on "Doctor Who"), 63
April 20 - Madelyn Pugh Davis, TV writer ("I Love Lucy"), 90
April 17 - Michael Sarrazin, actor ("They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"), 70
April 25 - Poly Styrene, r.n. Marian Elliott-Said, punk singer (X-Ray Spex), 53
April 27 - Marian Mercer, actress (Nancy Beebe on "It's a Living"), 75
April 27 - Yvette Vickers, model (Playboy) and actress ("Attack of the 50 Foot Woman"), 82
April 29 - William Campbell, actor ("Dementia 13"), 87
April 29 - David Mason, trumpeter (The Beatles' "Penny Lane"), 85
May 2 - Osama bin Laden, militant Islamic leader, 54
May 3 - Jackie Cooper, actor (Jackie in "Our Gang"), 88
May 4 - Sada Thompson, actress (Kate Lawrence on "Family"), 83
May 5 - Dana Wynter, actress (1956 "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"), 79
May 7 - Seve Ballesteros, pro golfer, 54
May 9 - Dolores Fuller, actress ("Glen or Glenda"), 88
May 10 - Mia Amber Davis, model/actress (Road Trip), 36
May 10 - Norma Zimmer, singer (champagne lady on "The Lawrence Welk Show"), 87
May 15 - Barbara Stuart, actress ("Bachelor Party"), 81
May 16 - Edward Hardwicke, actor (Watson in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes"), 78
May 18 - Leonard Kastle, writer-director ("The Honeymoon Killers"), 82
May 19 - Harmon Killebrew, Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins), 74
May 20 - "Macho Man" Randy Savage, pro wrestler, 58
May 21 - Bill Rechin, cartoonist ("Crock"), 80
May 22 - Suzanne Mizzi, pin-up model, 43
May 25 - Lillian Adams, actress ("Bruce Almighty"), 89
May 27 - Jeff Conaway, actor (Bobby Wheeler on "Taxi"), 60
May 30 - Clarice Taylor, actress (Grandmother Huxtable on "The Cosby Show"), 93
June 3 - James Arness, actor (Marshal Dillon on "Gunsmoke"), 88
June 3 - Jack Kevorkian, assisted suicide practicioner, 83
June 4 - Lawrence Eagleburger, U.S. secretary of state (1992-93), 80
June 4 - Lilian Jackson Braun, author ("The Cat Who"), 97
June 7 - Leonard Stern, TV writer ("Get Smart"), 88
June 8 - Alan Rubin, trumpet player (The Blues Brothers), 68
June 12 - Carl Gardner, pop vocalist (The Coasters), 83
June 12 - Laura Ziskin, film producer ("Spider-Man"), 61
June 18 - Clarence Clemons, saxophonist (Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band), 69
June 19 - Don Diamond, actor (Crazy Cat on "F Troop"), 90
June 20 - Ryan Dunn, daredevil ("Jackass"), 34
June 23 - Gene Colan, comic book artist ("Tomb of Dracula"), 84
June 23 - Peter Falk, actor (Lieutenant Columbo on "Columbo"), 83
June 23 - Fred Steiner, TV and film composer ("Perry Mason" theme), 88
June 25 - Margaret Tyzack, actress (Miss Seymour in "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"), 79
July 7 - Dick Williams, baseball manager (Oakland A's), 82
July 8 - Betty Ford, U.S. first lady, 93
July 8 - Roberts Blossom, actor ("Home Alone"), 87
July 12 - Sherwood Schwartz, TV producer ("Gilligan's Island"), 94
July 15 - Googie Withers, actress ("Dead of Night"), 94
July 18 - Edson Stroll, actor (Virgil Edwards on "McHale's Navy"), 82
July 22 - Elliot Handler, toymaker (Mattel), 95
July 23 - Amy Winehouse, jazz/soul singer ("Rehab"), 27
July 23 - Chip Mayer, actor (Vance Duke on "The Dukes of Hazzard"), 57
July 24 - Jane White, actress (Josephine Gregory on "Amen"), 88
August 2 - William Sleator, children's author ("Interstellar Pig"), 66
August 3 - Annette Charles, actress ("Grease"), 63
August 3 - Bubba Smith, NFL football player and actor ("Police Academy"), 66
August 11 - Jani Lane, rock singer (Warrant), 47
August 22 - Nick Ashford, pop/R&B songwriter ("Ain't No Mountain High Enough"), 69
August 22 - Jerry Leiber, pop songwriter ("Kansas City"), 78
August 27 - Eve Brent, actress ("Tarzan and the Trappers"), 82
September 5 - Charles S. Dubin, TV director ("M*A*S*H"), 92
September 6 - Al Hall, TV producer ("The Bozo Show"), 82
September 8 - Mary Fickett, actress (Ruth Martin on "All My Children"), 83
September 10 - Cliff Robertson, actor ("PT 109"), 88
September 11 - Andy Whitfield, actor ("Spartacus: Blood and Sand"), 39
September 13 - Richard Hamilton, artist (Beatles' white album art), 89
September 15 - Frances Bay, actress ("Happy Gilmore"), 92
September 16 - Tom Wilson, cartoonist ("Ziggy"), 80
September 18 - Jack Adler, comic book artist (DC Comics), 93
September 19 - Mary Jane Miller, children's author ("Me and My Name"), 75
September 20 - Robert Whitaker, photographer (Beatles "butcher" album cover), 71
September 22 - Jonathan Cecil, actor (Hastings in "Agatha Christie's Poirot"), 72
September 23 - Charles Hickson, alleged UFO abductee, 80
October 1 - Jim Troesh, actor (Scotty Wilson on "Highway to Heaven") and screenwriter, 54
October 5 - Steve Jobs, computer designer (Apple), 56
October 5 - Charles Napier, actor (Rambo: First Blood Part II), 75
October 5 - Billy Naylor, actor ("Our Gang"), 95
October 8 - Al Davis, AFL and NFL football executive (Oakland Raiders), 82
October 8 - Mikey Welsh, rock bassist (Weezer), 40
October 8 - Roger Williams, pop pianist ("Born Free"), 86
October 8 - David Hess, actor ("The Last House on the Left") and songwriter ("Speedy Gonzalez"), 69
October 12 - Patricia Breslin Modell, actress (Meg Baldwin on "General Hospital"), 80
October 13 - Barbara Kent, actress ("No Man's Law"), 103
October 20 - Barry Feinstein, rock photographer (George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" cover), 80
October 20 - Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan dictator, 69
October 24 - Florence Parry Heide, children's author ("The Shrinking of Treehorn"), 92
October 25 - Wyatt Knight, actor ("Porky's"), 56
November 2 - Sid Melton, actor (Alf on "Green Acres"), 94
November 2 - Leonard Stone, actor ("Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"), 87
November 3 - Cory Smoot, aka Flattus Maximus, heavy metal guitarist, 34
November 4 - Cynthia Myers, model (Playboy) and actress ("Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"), 61
November 5 - Andy Rooney, TV news commentator ("60 Minutes"), 92
November 6 - Margaret Field, aka Maggie Mahoney, actress ("The Man from Planet X"), 89
November 7 - Joe Frazier, pro boxer, 67
November 7 - Andrea True, porn actress and disco singer ("More, More, More"), 68
November 8 - Bil Keane, cartoonist ("Family Circus"), 89
November 14 - Lee Pockriss, songwriter ("Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini"), 87
November 19 - Gary Garcia, pop musician ("Pac-Man Fever"), 63
November 19 - John Neville, actor ("The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"), 86
November 21 - Anne McCaffrey, fantasy writer ("Dragonriders of Pern"), 85
November 25 - Judy Lewis, actress (Barbara Vining on "General Hospital"), 76
November 27 - Ken Russell, film director ("Tommy"), 84
December 1 - Bill McKinney, actor ("Deliverance"), 80
December 1 - Alan Sues, actor ("Laugh-In"), 85
December 7 - Harry Morgan, actor (Officer Bill Gannon on "Dragnet"), 96
December 7 - Jerry Robinson, comic book artist (Batman), 89
December 11 - Susan Gordon, actress ("The Five Pennies"), of cancer, 62
December 14 - Joe Simon, comic book writer (Captain America), 98
December 15 - Eduardo Barreto, comic book artist (Superman), 57
December 15 - Christopher Hitchens, writer ("Vanity Fair"), 62
December 16 - Dan Frazer, actor (Capt. Frank McNeil on "Kojak"), 90
December 17 - Kim Jong-Il, North Korean dictator (1994-2011), 69
December 18 - Vaclav Havel, Czech president (1989-2003), 75
December 21 - Hyman "Hy" Roth, illustrator (Playboy), 74
December 22 - William Duell, actor ("One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), 88
