Thursday, December 31, 2009

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in November 2009

November 30th
Harry C. Crosby, 84, American science fiction writer under pen name Christopher Anvil.

November 29th
Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer.

November 28th
Jeff Hoover, 41, American football coach (Eastern Illinois University), car accident. Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure.

November 27th
Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure.
Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness.
Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide.
Irving Tripp, 88, American comic book artist (Little Lulu), cancer.
Warren Vanders, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

November 22nd
Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match.


November 20th
Lester Shubin, 84, American developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest, heart attack.

November 19th
Daul Kim, 20, South Korean fashion model, suicide by hanging.
Uga VII, 4, American English bulldog mascot (University of Georgia), heart attack.


November 16th
Jan Leighton, 87, American actor, complications from a stroke.
Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world.
Bucky Williams, 102, American baseball player, second-oldest Negro League Baseball player.
Dennis Cole, 69, American actor. Ken Ober, 52, American comedian and game show host (Remote Control).

November 12th
Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke.

November 11th
Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams).
John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease.

November 10th
Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer.
David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer.
John Allen Muhammad, 48, American spree killer (Beltway Sniper), execution by lethal injection.
Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.


November 8th
Ellen Ahrndt, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall.

November 7th
Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer.
Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest.

November 6th
Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack.


November 4th
Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack.

November 3rd
Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler and Brake.
Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes.
Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist, after short illness.

November 2nd
Princess Haya bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah.
Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner.
Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke.
Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia.

November 1st
Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer.
Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection.
Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure.

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