Sunday, December 30, 2012

Deaths in November 2012

5th
Olympe Bradna, 92, French-born American dancer and actress (College Holiday, Souls at Sea, The Night of Nights).
Charles V. Bush, 72, American air force officer, first African American to graduate from the US Air Force Academy, colon cancer.

6th
Frank J. Prial, 82, American journalist and wine critic (The New York Times), complications of prostate cancer.

7th
Frank Peppiatt, 85, Canadian-born American television writer and producer, co-creator of Hee Haw, bladder cancer.

8th
Lucille Bliss, 96, American voice actress (Crusader Rabbit, The Smurfs), natural causes.
Herbert Carter, 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
Roger Hammond, 76, British actor (The King's Speech, Around the World in 80 Days), cancer.
Lee MacPhail, 95, American baseball Hall of Fame general manager (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees), American League President (1973–1984), natural causes.

9th
Leaford Bearskin, 91, American tribal leader, Chief of the Wyandotte Nation (1983–2011).
Valerie Eliot, 86, British editor, widow of T. S. Eliot.
Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
Bobbi Jordan, 75, American actress (General Hospital, Mame), heart attack.
Pat Renella, 83, American television actor (Bullitt, General Hospital, The New Phil Silvers Show).
James L. Stone, 89, American army officer and prisoner of war, recipient of the Medal of Honor.

14th
Martin Fay, 76, Irish musician (The Chieftains).
Wendell Garrett, 83, American historian, appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, natural causes.

16th
Leo Blair, 89, British academic, father of Tony Blair.

17th
Bonnie Lynn Fields, 68, American actress (Angel in My Pocket, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl) and Mouseketeer, throat cancer.

18th
Phoebe Hearst Cooke, 85, American businesswoman (Hearst Corporation) and philanthropist, pneumonia.
Neva Jane Langley, 79, American beauty pageant queen, Miss America (1953), cancer.

20th
David C. Copley, 60, American publishing heir (Copley Press) and socialite, apparent heart attack.

21st
Dann Cahn, 89, American film and television editor (I Love Lucy), natural causes.
Art Ginsburg, 81, American television chef (Mr. Food), pancreatic cancer.
Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman involved in 2008 Mumbai attacks, execution by hanging.
Edwarda O'Bara, 59, American medical patient, died after 42 years in a diabetic coma.
Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress (Once Is Not Enough, Death Wish 3, 7th Heaven), leukemia.
Eugene Smith, 94, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen) and attorney.
Emily Squires, 71, American television director (Sesame Street) and scriptwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns).

22nd
Mel Shaw, 97, American design artist (Fantasia, Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, The Lion King), heart failure.

23rd
Larry Hagman, 81, American actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie), complications from throat cancer.

24th
Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican boxer, injuries from gunshot.

25th
Earl Carroll, 75, American singer (The Cadillacs, The Coasters), complications of a stroke and diabetes.

26th
Joseph Murray, 93, American doctor and Nobel laureate (1990), performed first kidney transplantation, hemorrhagic stroke.
Martin Richards, 80, American Broadway and film producer (Chicago, La Cage aux Folles), cancer.

27th
Marvin Miller, 95, American union leader, Executive Director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (1966–1982), cancer.

28th
Jerry Finkelstein, 96, American media mogul and businessman (The Hill, New York Law Journal).
James Day Hodgson, 96, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1970–1974) and Ambassador to Japan (1974–1977).
Don Rhymer, 51, American film (Big Momma's House, Surf's Up, Rio) and television writer (Evening Shade), cancer.
Zig Ziglar, 86, American author and motivational speaker, pneumonia.

29th
Susan Luckey, 74, American actress (The Music Man, Carousel), natural causes.
Benjamin Tatar, 82, American actor (The Wind and the Lion, The Piano Lesson), chronic pulmonary disease.

30th
Jeff Millar, 70, American film critic (Houston Chronicle) and comic strip writer (Tank McNamara), bile duct cancer.







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