Monday, December 27, 2010

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in October 2010

31st
Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer.
Ted Sorensen, 82, American lawyer, White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke.
Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease.

30th
Douglas Argent, 89, British television producer and director (Fawlty Towers).
Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia.

29th
Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer, creator of Pokémon, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

28th
Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotanist, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science.
James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes.
Walter Payton, 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist, complications from a stroke.
John Sekula, 41, American guitarist (Mushroomhead).

27th
Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.
Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer.
Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma.
Hall Thompson, 87, American developer of a country club that did not admit black members. [61]
James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness.

26th
Glen Little, 84, American circus performer (Frosty the Clown).
James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes.

25th
Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Academy Award-winning film producer (The Accountant).

24th
Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure.
Philibert Parnasse, 109, French centenarian, oldest man in France and Guadeloupe.
Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba).

22nd
Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit.

21st
James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer.

20th
Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, lung cancer.

19th
Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure.

18th
Margaret Gwenver, American actress (Guiding Light).
Yertward Mazamanian, 85, American hippie.

17th
Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke.

16th
Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress (Leave It to Beaver).
Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest).
Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities).
Betty S. Murphy, 77, American lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia.

15th
Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American pro-life activist, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. [187].
N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer.
Georges Mathé, 88, French oncologist and immunologist, bone marrow transplant pioneer.
Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack.

14th
Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer.


13th
General Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer.

12th
Michael Galloway, 85, American actor (The Blue Angels).
Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer.
Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen).

11th
Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications.
Richard Morefield, 81, American embassy worker, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis.
Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary leader, convicted war criminal, after long illness.

10th
Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema.
Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes.
David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.

8th
Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent.
Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant.
Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis.
Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure.

6th
Mary Leona Gage, 71, American beauty queen (1957 Miss America) and actress, stripped of title for being married.

5th
Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer.Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember).

2nd
David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma.
Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia.
Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit).

1st
Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery.
Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company.
William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack.
William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer.
Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981).

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