Thursday, December 31, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in December 2009

December 28th
James "The Rev" Sullivan, 28, American hard rock drummer (Avenged Sevenfold).

December 26th
Percy Sutton, 89, American civil rights activist, politician and attorney, Manhattan Borough President (1966–1977).

December 24th
Derek Loux, 37, American Christian music singer, car accident.

December 22nd
Michael Currie, 81, American actor (Dark Shadows, Sudden Impact).

December 21st
Ann Nixon Cooper, 107, American civil rights activist, mentioned in President Obama's election victory speech.

December 20th
James Gurley, 69, American guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company), heart attack.
Brittany Murphy, 32, American actress (Clueless, King of the Hill, 8 Mile), cardiac arrest.
Arnold Stang, 91, American actor (Top Cat, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), pneumonia.

December 19th
Kim Peek, 58, American savant, inspiration for Rain Man, heart attack.
Loren Singer, 86, American novelist (The Parallax View).

December 18th
Connie Hines, 78, American actress (Mister Ed), heart failure.

December 17th
Alaina Reed Hall, 63, American actress (Sesame Street, 227), breast cancer.
Chris Henry, 26, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), blunt force trauma after fall from vehicle.
Jennifer Jones, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Song of Bernadette), natural causes.
Dan O'Bannon, 63, American screenwriter, director and actor, Crohn's disease.

December 16th
Arthur Cores, 52, American businessman, founder of Boston Market, esophageal cancer. Roy E. Disney, 79, American entertainment executive (The Walt Disney Company), nephew of Walt Disney, stomach cancer.
Bob Waldmire, 64, American Route 66 artist, cancer.

December 15th
Courtlandt Bryan, 73, American author (Friendly Fire), cancer.
Oral Roberts, 91, American evangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, complications from pneumonia.

December 14th
Conard Fowkes, 76, American actor (Dark Shadows).
Sol Price, 93, American businessman, founder of Price Club, natural causes.

December 13th
Dan Barton, 88, American actor and voice-over actor, heart failure and kidney disease. Yvonne King, 89, American singer (The King Sisters).

December 12th
Val Avery, 85, American actor (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie).
Robert G. Heft, 67, American designer of the 50-star American flag.

December 10th
Kenny Dino, 67, American pop singer

December 9th
Gene Barry, 90, American actor (Burke's Law, Bat Masterson), heart failure.
Luther Smith, 89, American pilot, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, heart attack.

December 7th
Mark Ritts, 63, American actor and puppeteer (Beakman's World), kidney cancer.

December 5th
Malcolm Perry, 80, American attending physician to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination, lung cancer.
Jack Rose, 38, American guitarist, heart attack.

December 4th
Liam Clancy, 74, Irish folk singer (The Clancy Brothers), pulmonary fibrosis.

December 2nd
Joan Castle, 95, American actress.

December 1st
Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, suspected of Lakewood police officer shooting, shot.

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