Saturday, December 01, 2012

Deaths in January 2012

31st
· Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, drug overdose.
· Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
 
30th

· Bruce Howard, 86, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, Gilligan's Island, Good Times), natural causes.
· Lawrence J. Shapiro, 79, American physician, homicide.
· Samuel S. Vaughan, 83, American publisher (Doubleday) and author, stroke.
29th
Sally Birdsong, 91, American actress (The Toy) and make-up artist
Damien Bona, 56, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack.
John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease.
· Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler
· John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure.
· Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.


27th
· James Metcalf, 86, American sculptor.
· Richard K. Olney, 64, American physician, pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

26th
· Ian Abercrombie, 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Wizards of Waverly Place, Birds of Prey).
· Dimitra Arliss, 79, American actress (The Sting, General Hospital, Xanadu), complications from a stroke.
· Kandi Barbour, 56, American pornographic actress.
· Joseph Brooks, 84, American retail executive (Lord and Taylor), leukemia.
· Bud Byerly, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
· Greg Cook, 65, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), complications from pneumonia.
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· Clare Fischer, 83, American composer.
· Robert Hegyes, 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.
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25th
· Dick Kniss, 74, American bassist (Peter, Paul and Mary; The John Denver Band), pulmonary disease.
· Mark Reale, 56, American heavy metal guitarist (Riot), Crohn's disease.
· Nick Santino, 47, American actor (All My Children, Guiding Light), suicide by overdose.

24th
· James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), sequelae from hip fracture.
· Delma Kollar, 114, American supercentenarian, one of the 100 verified oldest people ever.
· Stan Mitchell, 67, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
· Patricia Neway, 92, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (The Sound of Music), Tony Award-winner.

23th

Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack.
· Charla Krupp, 58, American author, breast cancer.
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22nd
Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer.
· Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers).
· Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer.
· Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince.
· Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space.
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21st
J. R. Boone, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).
· Cliff Chambers, 90, American baseball player.
· Troy Herriage, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
· Jonathan Idema, 55, American scam artist, complications from AIDS.
· Doug Long, 56, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), cancer.
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20th
· John F. Baker, Jr., 66, American Medal of Honor recipient.
· Etta James, 73, American blues singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
· John Levy, 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager.
· Phillip Vannatter, 70, American police investigator (O. J. Simpson murder case), cancer.
· George Zecevic, 75, Yugoslavian-born American film producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street).
19th

Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist.
· Beverly McDermott, 83, American casting director (Airport 77, Cocoon: The Return, Lenny).
· Gene Methvin, 77, American journalist and magazine editor.
· Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
· Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema.


17th
· Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
· R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure.

16th
· Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure.
· Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot.
· The Senator, American pond cypress, world's fifth oldest known tree, fire.
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15th
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· Matteo La Grua, 97, Italian priest and exorcist.
· Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall.
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14th
· Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
· Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta.
· Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures.
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13th
· Morgan Jones, 83, American actor (The Blue Angels, The Twilight Zone
· Richard Threlkeld, 74, American television journalist (CBS News), traffic collision.
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12th
· Natalee Holloway, 18 (in 2005), American student, missing since 2005.
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11th
· Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
· Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), kidney failure.
· Edgar Kaiser, 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984).
· Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player.
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10th

Alfonso de Bourbon, 83, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident.
· Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach.
· Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University).
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9th
· Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician
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8th
· Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide
· Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease.
· Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
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7th

· Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer
· George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected black mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes
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6th

Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ).
· Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer, anticipated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, cancer.
· John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer).
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5th

Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author.
· Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991).)

4th

Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer.
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3rd
· Charles W. Bailey, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease.
· Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer.
· Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke.
· Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots).
· Jenny Tomasin, 73 or 75, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs), hypertensive heart disease.
· Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (body found on this date)
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2nd

Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT).
· Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
· Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor. [448] (German)
· Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis.
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1st

Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer.
· Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure.
· Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe.

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