Friday, December 10, 2010

We Hardly Knew Ye - Those We Lost in April 2010

30th
Ron Fimrite, 79, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), pancreatic cancer.
Owsley, 44, American musician, apparent suicide.
Steve Strayhorn, 56, American drummer (A Full Moon Consort), cancer.

27th
Henry Sternweiler, 91, American Army intelligence officer, saved German military records during World War II.

26th
Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter, after short illness.

25th
Dorothy Provine, 75, American actress, (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), emphysema.
Susan Reed, 84, American folk singer and actress, natural causes.
Kevin Restani, 58, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack.

24th
Elizabeth Post, 89, American etiquette expert.
W. Willard Wirtz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1962–1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet.

23rd
Shay Duffin, 79, Irish-born American character actor, complications from heart surgery.

22nd
Richard Barrett, 67, American lawyer and white nationalist, stabbed.
Ambrose Olsen, 24, American fashion model.

21st
Whitney Robson Harris, 97, American lawyer, last surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from cancer.
Deborah Remington, 79, American artist, cancer.

20th
Sanford Friedman, 81, American novelist.
Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.

19th
Guru, 48, American rapper (Gang Starr), multiple myeloma.
Dylan Meier, 26, American college football player, climbing accident.
George H. Scithers, 80, American science fiction editor, Hugo Award winner, heart attack.

18th
Michael Adams, 60, American actor and stunt coordinator, stroke.
Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, Iraqi terrorist (Al-Qaeda), airstrike.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Egyptian terrorist (Al-Qaeda), airstrike.
William Grant Bangerter, 91, American Mormon leader, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Allen Swift, 86, American voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody), natural causes.

17th
Dede Allen, 86, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon), stroke.
Carl Macek, 58, American anime writer and producer (Robotech), heart attack.
John Carl Warnecke, 91, American architect (John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame), complications of pancreatic cancer.

16th
Sid Conrad, 86, American actor (The Young and the Restless).
Daryl Gates, 83, American police official, chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (1978–1992), bladder cancer.

15th
Robert Brubaker, 93, American character actor (Gunsmoke).
Bill DuBay, 62, American comic book editor, writer, and artist.
Jack Herer, 70, American cannabis activist, complications from heart attack.
Benjamin Hooks, 85, American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977–1992), after long illness.
Spann Watson, 93, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen) and civil rights advocate.

14th
Mississippi Slim, 66, American blues singer, heart attack.
Peter Steele, 48, American rock singer and bassist (Type O Negative), heart failure.

13th
Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, throat cancer.

12th
Peter Haskell, 75, American actor (Child's Play 2).
James F. Masterson, 84, American psychiatrist, complications of pneumonia.

11th
James Brody, 68, American composer, traffic collision.
Franz Kamin, 68, American composer, traffic collision.

10th
Dixie Carter, 70, American actress (Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes), endometrial cancer.

9th
Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack.

8th
Jack Agnew, 88, American soldier, member of the Filthy Thirteen, inspiration for The Dirty Dozen.
Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma.
Personal Ensign, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, Hall of Famer, natural causes.

7th
Dixieland Band, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Eddie Johnson, 89, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure.
Tom Ray, 90, American animation cartoonist (Warner Bros. Cartoons).

6th
James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire), pancreatitis.
Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket).
Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer.
Neva Morris, 114, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the United States.
Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.

5th
Vinnie Chas, American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd). (found on this date)

4th
Lori Martin, 62, American actor (Cape Fear).

2nd
Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler, possible suicide by overdose of prescription painkillers.
Carolyn Rodgers, 69, American poet, cancer.
Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness.

1st
John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia.
Buddy Gorman, 88, American actor (Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids), natural causes.

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