Thursday, January 01, 2009

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

12/1/08
Paul Benedict
, 70, American television actor (The Jeffersons).

Dorothy Sterling, 95, American writer and historian.

12/2/08
Henry Molaison
, 82, American amnesiac, subject of brain science study, respiratory failure.

Odetta, 77, American folk singer and human rights activist, heart disease

12/5/08
Beverly Garland
, 82, American actress (My Three Sons), after long illness.

Party Arty, 29, American rapper.

Donna Stewart-Hardaway
, 75, American actress (The Wizard of Oz).

12/6/08
Sunny von Bülow
, 76, American heiress, cardiopulmonary arrest.

12/7/08
Dennis Yost
, 65, American singer (Classics IV), respiratory failure.

12/8/08
Robert Prosky
, 77, American actor (Hill Street Blues), complications from a heart procedure.

12/10/08
Chris Richardson
, 28, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters), natural causes.

12/11/08
Maddie Blaustein
, 48, American voice actress.

Ron Carey
, 72, American labor leader, lung cancer.

Bettie Page
, 85, American pin-up model, complications from a heart attack.

12/12/08
Van Johnson
, 92, American actor (Battleground, The Caine Mutiny, Brigadoon, Batman), natural causes.
12/15/08
Jay E. Welch
, 83, American musician, founder of the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus.

12/16/08
Sam Bottoms, 53, American actor (Apocalypse Now), glioblastoma multiforme.

12/18/08
Majel Barrett
, 76, American actress (Star Trek), widow of Gene Roddenberry, leukemia.

John Costelloe, 47, American actor (The Sopranos), suicide by gunshot.

W. Mark Felt, 95, American Deputy Director of the FBI, "Deep Throat" in the Watergate scandal, heart failure.

Paul Weyrich
, 66, American conservative activist, diabetes.

12/19/08
James Bevel, 72, American civil rights leader, pancreatic cancer.

Page Cavanaugh, 86, American jazz pianist and singer, kidney failure.

Carol Chomsky, 78, American linguist, wife of Noam Chomsky, cancer.

Michael Connell
, 45, American political strategist, plane crash.

12/20/08
Robert Mulligan, 83, American film director (To Kill a Mockingbird), heart disease.

12/21/08
Dale Wasserman
, 94, American playwright (Man of La Mancha), heart failure.

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Norm Cook, 53, American basketball player (Kansas Jayhawks, Boston Celtics).

12/23/08
Manuel Benitez
, 39, American child actor and FBI fugitive, shot.

12/25/08
Eartha Kitt, 81, American singer and actress, colon cancer.

Ann Savage, 87, American actress (Detour), complications from stroke.

Sam Thompson, Jr., 36, American jockey, fall.

Robert Ward, 70, American blues singer and guitarist.

12/26/08
Rollin Hard, 34, American professional wrestler, cancer.

Ellie Nesler, 56, American criminal and media personality, breast cancer.

12/27/08
Delaney Bramlett
, 69, American songwriter and record producer, complications from gallbladder surgery.

George Francis
, 112, American supercentenarian, joint second-oldest man in the world.

Robert Graham, 70, Mexican-born American sculptor, husband of Anjelica Huston, after long illness.

Christine Maggiore
, 51, American AIDS denialist

12/29/08
Freddie Hubbard, 70, American jazz trumpeter, complications from a heart attack.

12/30/08
Bernie Hamilton
, 80, American actor (Starsky and Hutch), cardiac arrest.

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