Friday, December 11, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in May 2009

May 31st
Millvina Dean, 97, British woman, last living passenger aboard the Titanic, pneumonia.
George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot.

May 28th
Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes.

May 27th
Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease.

May 26th
Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke.

May 24th
Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose.
Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer.

May 23rd
Charles Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure.

May 22nd
Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage.

May 20th
Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging.

May 18th
Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse), complications from diabetes.
Carole Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer.
Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot.

May 17th
Octavia St. Laurent, American transwoman and performer.

May 15th
Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide.
Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer

May 14th
Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness.
Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure.
Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall.

May 13th
Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer.

May 11th
Angel Arce Torres, 78, American hit and run victim, bronchial pneumonia due to spinal injury.

May 9th
Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer.
Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure.
Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer.
George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot.

May 7th
Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz).
Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun), throat cancer.
John Furia, Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975).

May 6th
Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. [224]
Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.
Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.

May 5th
Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match.
Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer.

May 4th
Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor and comedian (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH), writer and chef, kidney failure.
Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung.
Jane Randolph, 93, American actress.

May 2nd
Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure. [253]
Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer.
Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer.
Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist. [259]

May 1st
Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer.
John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer.

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