We Hardly Knew Ye - People We Lost in January 2010

January 29thKaren Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), struck by getaway car.

January 27th
Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).
Shirley Caddell, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.
J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes. Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and antiwar activist, heart attack.

January 24th
Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D.), pancreatic cancer.

January 22nd
Apache, American rapper, after long illness.
Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose.
Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation.
Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites).
James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Maggie Renfro, 114, American supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world, pneumonia.
Johnny Seven, 83, American character actor, lung cancer.
Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (Hamlet, Spartacus), lung cancer.
Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102, American abortion rights activist.


January 20th
Jim Korthe, 39, American vocalist (3rd Strike), after short illness.
Joe Ptacek, 37, American death metal vocalist (Broken Hope), suicide by gunshot.

January 19th
Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.
Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).
Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer.

January 18th
Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.

January 17th
Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.

January 16th
Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell.
Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.
Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter (Hey Joe), after long illness.

January 14th
Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do").
Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.

January 13th
Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer.
Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician.
Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.

January 12th
Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colon cancer.
Dannie Flesher, 58, American co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, pneumonia.
Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician, earthquake.
Dewey Tucker, 24, American bassist and smooth jazz performer, shot.
Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer.

January 11th
Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress.
Dorothy Geeben, 101, American Mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the United States.
Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank and her family during World War II, complications following a fall.
Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas).
Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by car. Sandra Wright, 61, American blues and gospel singer, natural causes.

January 10th
Garland English, 28, American soldier and activist, rappelling accident.
Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure.
Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness.
Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.

January 8th
Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection.

January 6th
James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect.

January 5th
Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.

January 4th
Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema.
Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress.(body discovered on this date)

January 3rd
Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.
Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher.
Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.
Paula Sladewski, 27, American Playboy model.

January 2nd
Adam Max Cohen 38, American author, Shakespeare scholar, associate professor (UMD), brain tumor.
David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.

January 1st
Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show).
Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer.
John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends).
Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.
Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), cystic fibrosis.