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

9/1/08
Sheldon Keller, 85, American comedy writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

9/6/08
Anita Page, 98, American actress (The Broadway Melody), natural causes

9/11/08
Joan Winston, 77, American author, founder of Star Trek convention, Alzheimer's disease.

9/12/08
Charlie Walker, 81, American country music singer, colon cancer.

David Foster Wallace, 46, American author and essayist (Infinite Jest), suicide by hanging.

9/14/08
Hyman Golden, 85, American co-founder of Snapple Beverage Corporation, complications from stroke.

9/16/08
Norman Whitfield, 68, American Motown songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine") and record producer, diabetes.

9/18/08
Howard Mann, 85, American actor and comedian, cancer.

9/20/08
Nappy Brown, 78, American blues singer.

9/22/08
Buddy McDonald, 85, American child actor (Our Gang), heart failure.

9/24/08
Oliver Crawford, 91, American television writer blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Irene Dailey, 88, American actress, colon cancer.

Cherry Smith, 65, Jamaican singer (The Wailers).

9/26/08
Phyllis Welch MacDonald, 95, American theater and film actress.

Paul Newman, 83, American Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist, lung cancer.

9/29/08
Hayden Carruth, 87, American poet and literary critic, stroke.

Richard Clayton, 93, American actor and talent agent (Burt Reynolds, James Dean), heart failure.

Elinor Guggenheimer, 96, American philanthropist and author.

Louis Guss, 90. American actor.

Stan Kann, 83, American organist and Tonight Show regular, complications from heart procedure.


9/30/08
Henry Adler, 93, American drummer, teacher of Buddy Rich.