Wednesday, December 30, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in October 2009

October 30th
Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.
Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark "palimony" lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.


October 27th
August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.

October 26th
Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.

October 25th
Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.


October 23rd
Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.

October 22nd
Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.
Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.

October 21st
Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.

October 20th

Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).


October 18th
Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.
Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.

October 17th
Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres),

October 15th
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.
George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man).

October 14th
Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes.
Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.
Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.

October 13th
Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio chief (MGM, Columbia), television producer, executive producer (That's Entertainment!).


October 12th
Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.

October 10th
Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
Edward Knight, 82, American actor.

October 7th
Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.
Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.

October 6th
Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.

October 5th
Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound.
René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse.

October 4th
Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.

October 2nd
Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.

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