Monday, December 13, 2010

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in May 2010

31st
Furkan Doğan, 19, American student, Gaza flotilla raid participant.
Chris Haney, 59, Canadian co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit, after long illness.
Donald Windham, 89, American novelist

30th
Peter Orlovsky, 76, American poet, lung cancer.
Jeanne Robinson, 62, American dancer and novelist, wife of Spider Robinson, biliary tract cancer.
Ali-Ollie Woodson, 58, American soul singer (The Temptations), leukemia.

29th
Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor and film director (Easy Rider), prostate cancer.
Jeriome Robertson, 33, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians), motorcycle collision.

28th
Eddie Barth, 78, American actor (Simon & Simon) and voice actor, heart failure.
Slim Bryant, 101, American country singer-songwriter.
Gary Coleman, 42, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), intracranial hemorrhage.
Leslie Scalapino, 65, American poet, publisher and playwright.

27th
John William Finn, 100, American naval officer, oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.
Yvonne Howell, 104, American actress.
Peter Keefe, 57, American animation producer and executive (Voltron, Denver, the Last Dinosaur), throat cancer.

26th
Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-born American radio and television personality (House Party, People are Funny), natural causes.
Judy Lynn, 74, American country music singer, heart failure.
Pat Stevens, 64, American actress and voice actress (M*A*S*H, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo), breast cancer.

25th
Arthur Herzog, 83, American writer.
Jarvis Williams, 45, American football player (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants), heart attack.

24th
Paul Gray, 38, American heavy metal bassist (Slipknot), accidental fentanyl and morphine overdose.
Raymond V. Haysbert, 90, American business executive and civil rights leader, member of Tuskegee Airmen, heart failure.
Eugenia Paul, 75, American actress (Zorro).
Katherine Reback, 59, American screenwriter (Fools Rush In), complications from cancer.

23rd
David Ginsburg, 98, American lawyer and political insider, heart failure.
Irwin Rosten, 85, American documentary filmmaker (The Incredible Machine), after short illness.


21st
Howard Post, 83, American cartoonist and animator.

20th
Robert L. McNeil, Jr., 94, American chemist and inventor, creator of Tylenol, heart failure.
Robert Tralins, 84, American author.

19th
Martin Cohan, 77, American television writer and producer, creator of Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?, large cell lymphoma.
Larry Dale, 87, American blues singer and guitarist.

18th
Peter Seaton, 67, American poet, influential in language poetry movement, apparent heart attack.
Snow Chief, 18, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.

17th
Judson Crews, 92, American poet.
Dorothy Kamenshek, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943–1952).

16th
Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), stomach cancer.
Aiyana Jones, 7, American victim, shot.
Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.
Stephen Perry, 55, American television writer (ThunderCats, SilverHawks), homicide. (body discovered on this date)

15th
Harry Aleman, 71, American gangster and murderer, lung cancer.
John Shepherd-Barron, 84, British inventor, invented the Automatic Teller Machine.

14th
Norman Hand, 37, American football player (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints), heart disease.
Skip Away, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.

13th
Eddie Garrett, 82, American actor (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Quincy, M.E.).

12th
Phyllis Hodges Boyce, 73, American actress (Gone with the Wind, Star Trek).
Allan Manings, 86, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times), cardiac arrest.

11th
Richard LaMotta, 67, American inventor of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich, heart attack.
Doris Eaton Travis, 106, American performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, aneurysm.

10th
Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke.

9th
Erica Blasberg, 25, American golfer.
Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz).
Craig Kauffman, 78, American painter and sculptor, complications from a stroke and pneumonia.
Edward Uhl, 92, American inventor, co-inventor of the bazooka, heart failure.

7th
Francisco Aguabella, 84, Cuban-born American jazz percussionist, cancer.
Rane Arroyo, 55, American poet, cerebral hemorrhage.
Dave Fisher, 69, American folk singer (The Highwaymen), myelofibrosis.
Adele Mara, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima), natural causes.

6th
David E. Durston, 88, American film director and screenwriter (I Drink Your Blood), complications from pneumonia.
Robert J. Serling, 92, American author, brother of Rod Serling.

4th
Nick Rogers, 30, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), auto accident.

3rd
Karl Kasten, 94, American painter.
Kinji Shibuya, 88, American professional wrestler and actor (Mr. T and Tina), natural causes.

2nd
Lynn Redgrave, 67, English actress (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters), breast cancer.

1st
Danny Aiello III, 53, American stunt performer, pancreatic cancer.
Helen Wagner, 91, American actress (As the World Turns).

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