We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in July, 2008

7/3/08
Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure.

David P. Powers, 74, American Emmy Award-winning television director, skin cancer.

7/4/08
Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer

7/9/08
Charles H. Joffe, 78, American Academy Award-winning film producer (Annie Hall), after long illness.

7/12/08
Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer.

7/13/08
Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner ("Desiderata").

7/16/08
Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster.

7/17/08
Larry Haines, 89, American actor (Search for Tomorrow).

Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor (Dallas).

7/19/08
Robert Berning, 73, American grocer, principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's, bone cancer.

Anastasia Blue, 28, American pornographic actress, drug overdose.

Robert Nesheim, 86, American nutritionist (Quaker Oats), developed Cap'n Crunch and Life breakfast cereals, prostate cancer.

7/20/08
Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer.

7/21/08
Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.

7/22/08
Joe Beck, 62, American jazz guitarist.

Estelle Getty, 84, American actress (The Golden Girls), Lewy body dementia.

Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes.

7//25/08
Bruce Adler, 63, American actor (Those Were the Days, Crazy for You), liver cancer.

Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer.

Harriet Burns, 79, American artist, first woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering, heart complications.

Don Callander, 78, American fantasy novel author (Pyromancer).

Johnny Griffin, 80, American jazz saxophonist.

Carrie Allen McCray, 94, American author.

Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor (Carnegie Mellon) and author (The Last Lecture), pancreatic cancer.


7/28/08
Margaret Ringenberg, 87, American aviator and airplane racer, natural causes.

7/29/08
Eula Beal, 89, American opera singer.

Luther Davis, 91, American playwright and screenwriter.

Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, American microbiologist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks, suicide by drug overdose.

7/31/08
Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer.