We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in January 2008

1/1/08
Salvatore Bonanno, 75, American mobster, heart attack

Dennis Clifton, 54, American musician (Cornbread Red) and studio engineer, cancer.

1/3/08
Andrew J. Olmsted, 37, American army blogger in Iraq, shot.

O.G. Style, 37, American rapper, brain aneurysm

1/4/08
Brandi Borr, 39, American stand-up comedian, breast cancer.

Joyce Carlson, 84, American artist, designer of Disney's It's a Small World rides, cancer.

1/6/08
Bob LeMond, 94, American radio and television announcer (Leave It to Beaver).

1/8/08
Jim Dooley, 77, American professional football player and coach (Chicago Bears), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Clyde Otis, 83, American songwriter and record producer.

1/9/08
Gemina, 21, African Baringo giraffe at the Santa Barbara Zoo with a neck deformity, euthanized.

Johnny Grant, 84, American entertainer, honorary Mayor of Hollywood.

Lew Spence, 87, American songwriter.

1/10/08
Christopher Bowman, 40, American Olympic figure skater, accidental drug overdose.

1/11/08
Carl Karcher, 90, American founder of Carl's Jr restaurants, complications from Parkinson's Disease.

1/12/08
Terrell Rogers, 39, American anti-violence activist, homicide.

1/15/08
Brad Renfro, 25, American actor (The Client, Ghost World), accidental heroin overdose.

1/17/08
Bobby Fischer, 64, American chess grandmaster, world champion (1972–1975), kidney failure.

Allan Melvin, 84, American actor (The Phil Silvers Show, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family), cancer.

1/19/08
Suzanne Pleshette, 70, American actress (The Bob Newhart Show, The Birds), respiratory failure.

John Stewart, 68, American musician (The Kingston Trio), stroke.

1/22/08
Heath Ledger, 28, Australian Academy Award-nominated actor (Brokeback Mountain), accidental prescription drug overdose.

1/25/08
Christopher Allport, 60, American television actor, avalanche.

1/26/08
Christian Brando, 49, American actor and convicted killer, son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia.

1/27/08
Alan G. Rogers, 40, American Army major, first known gay combat fatality of Iraq War, improvised explosive device.

1/28/08
Larry Smith, 68, American college football coach, chronic lymphatic leukemia.

1/29/08
Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, American author, daughter of former US President Harry S. Truman.

1/30/08
Sean Finnegan, 43, American hardcore punk drummer (Void), apparent heart attack.