Saturday, December 26, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in July 2009

July 31st
Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer.

July 29th
Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease.
Ernest W. Lefever, 90, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies.

July 28th
Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke.
Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma.
Bernard Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke.

July 27th
Bernadette Cozart, 62, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack.
George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

July 26th
Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.
Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery.
Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure.

July 25th
Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante.
Vernon Forrest, 38, American boxer, shot.
Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia.

July 23rd
Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes.
E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author.
Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes.
Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure.

July 22nd
Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma.
Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
Damien Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.

July 21st
John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer.
Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke.
Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television).

July 19th
Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma.

July 18th
Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour.
Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease.

July 17th
Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease. Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest.

July 14th
Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery. Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author.
Dallas McKennon, 89, American voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.

July 13th
Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes.
Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.

July 12th
Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke.

July 11th
Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.
Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer.


July 9th
Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned.

July 8th
Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection.
Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.



July 6th
Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot.
Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer).
Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes.
Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts).

July 4th
Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer.
Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).
Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.
Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.
Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot.

July 3rd
John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis.
E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes.
John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure. Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer.

July 2nd
Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon.

July 1st
Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes.
Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes.
Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court.
Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes.

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