Wednesday, December 31, 2008

We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in November 2008

11/1/08
Nathaniel Mayer
, 64, American rhythm & blues singer, stroke.

Rosetta Reitz
, 84, American jazz historian and record company founder, cardiopulmonary disease.

Jack Reno, 72, American country music singer, brain cancer.

Tiffany Sloan, 35, American model (Playboy), suicide by drug overdose.

11/2/08
Madelyn Dunham
, 86, American maternal grandmother of Barack Obama, cancer

11/3/08
Edward Sheehan
, 78, American foreign correspondent, allergic reaction to medication.

Cecil W. Stoughton
, 88, American Presidential photographer (Kennedy, Johnson), complications from hip replacement.

John Trudeau
, 81, American music promoter, founder of the Britt Festival, heart failure.

11/4/08
Michael Crichton,
66, American writer (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, ER), throat cancer.

Chris Thurston
, 32, American rapper, cardiac arrest.

11/7/08
Heather Pick
, 38, American newscaster, breast cancer.

Jody Reynolds, 75, American singer and guitarist, liver cancer.

Abraham Woods
, 80, American civil rights leader, cancer.

11/8/08
Richard Fortman
, 93, American checkers champion.

Florence Wald
, 91, American nurse, hospice pioneer.


11/11/08
Howard Reig
, 87, American television announcer

11/12/08
Paula Goodspeed
, 30, American American Idol contestant, apparent suicide by overdose.

Mitch Mitchell
, 61, British drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), natural causes.

11/14/08
Irving Gertz, 93, American composer.

Adrian Kantrowitz
, 90, American physician, performed the first pediatric heart transplant, heart failure.

11/18/08
Irving Brecher
, 94, American comedy writer, heart attack.

Ennio de Concini
, 84, Italian Academy Award–winning screenwriter.

Debby
, 42, Soviet-born Canadian oldest living polar bear, third-oldest known bear, euthanasia due to multiple organ failure.

George Stephen Morrison
, 89, American admiral, father of Jim Morrison.

11/18/08
George C. Chesbro
, 68, American novelist, heart failure.

11/19/08
John Michael Hayes
, 89, American screenwriter (Rear Window), natural causes.

11/20/08
Betty James, 90, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company, wife of Richard T. James.

11/22/08
MC Breed, 37, American rapper, kidney failure

11/25/08
William Gibson
, 94, American playwright (The Miracle Worker).

11/26/08
Edna Parker
, 115, American supercentenarian, oldest validated living person.

De'Angelo Wilson
, 29, American actor, suicide by hanging.

11/27/08
Patricia Marand, 74, American actress, brain cancer.

Andrew McKelvey
, 74, American founder of Monster.com, pancreatic cancer.

11/28/08
Bill Finnegan
, 80, American television and film producer (The Fabulous Baker Boys, Hawaii Five-O), Parkinson's disease.

11/30/08
Doris Dungey
, 47, American financial blogger, ovarian cancer.

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