Sunday, December 27, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - These We Lost in August 2009

August 31st
Eddie Higgins, 77, American jazz pianist, cancer.
Jack Manning, 93, American film, stage and television actor.

August 30th
Marie Knight, 84, American gospel singer, pneumonia.
Nancy Talbot, 89, American businesswoman, co-founder of Talbots retail stores, Alzheimer's disease.

August 29th
Gennaro Angiulo, 90, American Mafia underboss, renal failure.
Chanel, 21, American dachshund, world's oldest dog, natural causes.
Chris Connor, 81, American jazz singer, cancer.

August 28th
Richard Egan, 73, American businessman and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.
Adam Goldstein, 36, American club disc jockey and musician (Crazy Town), suspected drug overdose.
Wayne Tippit, 76, American character actor (Melrose Place), after long illness.

August 27th
Alex Grass, 82, American businessman, founder of Rite Aid drugstores, lung cancer.

August 26th
Sadie Corre, 91, British actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show).
Dominick Dunne, 83, American writer and investigative journalist, bladder cancer. Ellie Greenwich, 68, American songwriter ("Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love"), heart attack.

August 25th
Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer.

August 24th
Joseph Corbett, Jr., 80, American murderer and kidnapper, suicide by gunshot.

August 23rd
Stanley Kaplan, 90, American businessman and scholastic test preparation pioneer, founder of Kaplan, Inc., heart disease.

August 21st
Ernest Brown, 93, American tap dancer.
Johnny Carter, 75, American singer (The Flamingos, The Dells), lung cancer.

August 20th
Larry Knechtel, 69, American keyboardist (Bread)

August 19th
Don Hewitt, 86, American television producer, creator of 60 Minutes, pancreatic cancer.

August 18th
Robert Novak, 78, American conservative author and pundit, brain cancer.

August 16th
Ed Reimers, 96, American character actor (Star Trek, The Barefoot Executive). [141]
Burl Toler, 81, American football official, first African American official in the NFL.

August 15th
Kenneth Bacon, 64, American president of Refugees International, Asst Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, melanoma.
Virginia Davis, 90, American child actress.
Jasmine Fiore, 28, American Playboy model, strangled.
Sammy Petrillo, 74, American comedian, cancer.
Louis Rosen, 91, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), inventor of the atom smasher, subdural hematoma.

August 14th
Lawrence Lucie, 101, American jazz guitarist.
Philip Saltzman, 80, Mexican-born American television writer and producer (Columbo, Barnaby Jones), natural causes.

August 13th
Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia.

August 12th
Ruth Ford, 98, American model and actress.

August 11th
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, American activist, founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy.
Kitty White, 86, American jazz vocalist, stroke.

August 10th
Andy Kessler, 48, American skateboarder, cardiac arrest following wasp sting.
Merlyn Mantle, 77, American author, widow of Mickey Mantle, Alzheimer's disease.Representatives (since 1994), lung cancer.

August 9th
John Quade, 71, American character actor (Every Which Way But Loose, The Outlaw Josey Wales), natural causes.

August 7th
Jimmy Bedford, 69, American distiller (Jack Daniel's), heart attack.
Gibson, 7, American Great Dane, recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as world's tallest dog, bone cancer.
Mike Seeger, 75, American folk musician, folklorist and banjo player, cancer.

August 6th
John Hughes, 59, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club), heart attack.
Sam, 4, Australian koala made famous after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, euthanised.

August 5th
Budd Schulberg, 95, American screenwriter (On the Waterfront), television producer and novelist, natural causes.

August 1st
Naomi Sims, 61, American model and author, breast cancer.
Howard Smit, 98, American film make-up artist (The Wizard of Oz).

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