We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in October, 2007

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• Jimmy Hutmaker, 75, American alleged to be 'Mr. Jimmy" in The Rolling Stones song You Can't Always Get What You Want.

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• John Henry, 32, American Hall of Fame thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after kidney failure.

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• Carol Bruce, 87, American actress (WKRP in Cincinnati), COPD

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• Alec Kessler, 40, American basketball player (Georgia Bulldogs, Miami Heat), heart attack.

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• Salih Saif Aldin, 32, Iraqi correspondent for The Washington Post, shot.
• Big Moe, 33, American rapper, heart attack.
  
• Slew o'Gold, 27, American thoroughbred racehorse and Hall of Fame inductee, euthanized. [133]
• Sigrid Valdis, 72, American actress (Hogan's Heroes), lung cancer.

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• Nicky James, 64, British pop singer (The Moody Blues), brain tumour.
• Lucius Theus, 85, American airforce major-general, Tuskegee Airman.

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• Deborah Kerr, 86, British actress (From Here to Eternity, Black Narcissus, The King and I), complications of Parkinson's disease.

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• Billy Berroa, 79, Dominican Spanish broadcaster for New York Mets on WADO, prostate cancer. [102]
• Joey Bishop, 89, American entertainer, last surviving member of the Rat Pack.
• Teresa Brewer, 76, American pop and jazz singer, supranuclear palsy.
• Taku, 14, American orca at SeaWorld San Antonio.

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• Vincent DeDomenico, 92, American inventor of Rice-a-Roni.

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• LaLa Brown, 21, American R&B singer, shot.

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• Jim Cummins, 62, American correspondent for NBC News, cancer.
  
• John L. Gaunt, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, congestive heart failure.

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• Porter Wagoner, 80, American country music singer, lung cancer.

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• Robert Goulet, 73, American singer and actor, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Linda S. Stein, 62, American former manager of the Ramones, real estate agent, beaten.