10/1/08
Robert Arthur, 83, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High), heart failure.
House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia.
Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease.
10/3/08
Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping.
10/5/08
Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma.
10/6/08
Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director, film poster designer (The Last Samurai, Field of Dreams), emphysema.
10/9/08
Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose.
10/11/08
Neal Hefti, 85, American composer ("Batman Theme", "The Odd Couple Theme"), heart attack.
Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia.
10/12/08
Cliff Nobles, 64, American pop musician, cancer.
James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery.
10/15/08
Jack Narz, 85, American game show host (Concentration), complications from strokes.
10/17/08
Edie Adams, 81, American actress and singer, pneumonia and cancer.
10/17/08
Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke.
10/18/08
Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75, American beauty pageant winner, Miss America (1954), colorectal cancer.
Dee Dee Warwick, 63, American soul singer, sister of Dionne Warwick, after long illness.
10/19/08
Rudy Ray Moore, 81, American comedian and actor (Dolemite), complications from diabetes.
10/19/08
Richard Blackwell, 86, American fashion critic ("Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women"), intestinal infection.
10/23/08
E. Roger Muir, 89, American television producer, stroke.
10/24/08
Milton Katselas, 74, American film director, heart failure.
Merl Saunders, 74, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), collaborator with Jerry Garcia, complications from a stroke.
10/25/08
Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke.
10/26/08
Delmar Watson, 82, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), prostate cancer.
10/27/08
Dean Barnett, 41, American columnist and blogger, complications from cystic fibrosis.
Ray Ellis, 85, American musician, conductor and television producer, complications from melanoma.
10/29/08
Gerald Arpino, 85, American dancer and choreographer, after long illness.
Mike Baker, 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery), heart attack.
Mae Mercer, 76, American blues singer.
William Wharton, 82, American painter and novelist (Birdy), infection.
10/30/08
Edith Evans Asbury, 98, American journalist (The New York Times), after long illness
10/31/08
Frank Navetta, 46, American guitarist (Descendents)
Studs Terkel, 96, American broadcaster and author (The Good War), complications from a fall.
1 comment:
Th average age of everyone you mention in this column is 67.8 years old. That includes the 13 year old cat
That leaves me about nine years left on my tenure, but then again, am I average?
Hmmmmmm, some thought required.
have a great day.
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