Saturday, December 29, 2007

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

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  • Sonny Bupp, 79, American child actor (Our Gang, Citizen Kane), last surviving credited cast member of Citizen Kane.
  • Paul Tibbets, 92, American pilot of the Enola Gay which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, heart failure.

6

  • George Osmond, 90, American patriarch of the Osmond singing family.

10

  • Laraine Day, 87, American actress (Foreign Correspondent, The High and the Mighty).
  • Norman Mailer, 84, American Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Naked and the Dead, The Executioner's Song), renal failure. [199]
  • John H. Noble, 84, American prisoner in Russian gulag and author (I Was a Slave in Russia), heart attack.

12

  • Ira Levin, 78, American author (Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives) and playwright (Deathtrap), heart attack.

14

  • Michael Blodgett, 68, American actor and screenwriter (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls), heart attack. [158]
  • Ronnie Burns, 72, American actor, adopted son of George Burns and Gracie Allen, cancer. [159]
  • Bertha Fry, 113, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world, pneumonia.

19

  • Kevin DuBrow, 52, American rock singer (Quiet Riot), accidental cocaine overdose. [112]
  • Dick Wilson, 91, British-born American actor ("Mr. Whipple"), natural causes.

26

  • Mel Tolkin, 94, American head writer for Your Show of Shows.

27

  • Robert Cade, 80, American doctor, inventor of Gatorade, kidney failure
  • Cecil Payne, 84, American saxophonist, prostate cancer.
  • Sean Taylor, 24, American football player (Washington Redskins), homicide by gunshot.

28

  • Jeanne Bates, 89, American film actress, breast cancer.

29

  • Ralph Beard, 79, American college basketball player for the University of Kentucky involved in point-shaving scandal.
  • Nardi Reeder Campion, 90, American author and columnist.
  • Jim Nesbitt, 76, American country music singer.

30

  • Ralph Ezell, 54, American bass guitarist (Shenandoah), heart attack.
  • Robert "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 69, American stunt performer.

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