Sunday, December 4, 2016

2010 Celebrity Deaths

January Miep Gies Jean Simmons January 4 Johan Ferrier, 1st President of Suriname (b. 1910) Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese dual atomic bomb survivor (b. 1916) January 9 – Armand Razafindratandra, Malagasy cardinal (b. 1925) January 11 Miep Gies, Dutch humanitarian (b. 1909) Éric Rohmer, French film director (b. 1920) January 12 – Zilda Arns, Brazilian pediatrician and aid worker (b. 1934) January 13 – Teddy Pendergrass, African-American R&B and soul singer (b. 1950) January 15 – Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) January 17 Jyoti Basu, Indian politician (b. 1914) Erich Segal, American author, screenwriter, and educator (b. 1937) Daisuke Gōri, Japanese voice actor (b. 1952) January 18 – Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer (b. 1946) January 19 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (b. 1939) January 22 Iskandar of Johor, 8th King of Malaysia (b. 1932) Jean Simmons, British actress (b. 1929) January 25 – Ali Hassan al-Majid, Iraqi politician and military commander (b. 1941) January 27 Zelda Rubinstein, American actress and human rights activist (b. 1933) J. D. Salinger, American author (b. 1919) Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922) February Alexander Haig February 1 – Steingrímur Hermannsson, 19th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1928) February 6 – John Dankworth, British jazz musician and composer (b. 1927) February 7 – André Kolingba, 4th President of the Central African Republic (b. 1936) February 10 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1933) February 11 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (b. 1969) February 14 – Dick Francis, British author and jockey (b. 1920) February 17 – Kathryn Grayson, American singer (b. 1922) February 18 – Ariel Ramírez, Argentine composer (b. 1921) February 20 – Alexander Haig, 59th United States Secretary of State (b. 1924) February 26 – Jun Seba, Japanese hip hop producer, DJ (b. 1974) March Michael Foot Robert Culp March 3 – Michael Foot, British politician (b. 1913) March 4 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Soviet-born politician (b. 1945) March 10 Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971) Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (b. 1928) March 12 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish author and journalist (b. 1920) March 14 – Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926) March 20 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925) March 21 – Wolfgang Wagner, German festival director (b. 1919) March 22 James Black, British pharmacologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924) Valentina Tolkunova, Soviet and Russian singer (b. 1946) March 24 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1930) March 27 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet-Russian chess grandmaster (b. 1921) March 28 Herb Ellis, American jazz guitarist (b. 1921) June Havoc, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1912) March 30 – Martin Sandberger, German army officer (b. 1911) April Lech Kaczyński Juan Antonio Samaranch April 1 – John Forsythe, American actor (b. 1918) April 3 – Eugène Terre'Blanche, South African politician and white supremacist (b. 1941) April 5 – Vitaly Sevastyanov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935) April 6 – Corin Redgrave, British actor and political activist (b. 1939) April 8 Malcolm McLaren, British musician and manager (b. 1946) Abel Muzorewa, Zimbabwean politician (b. 1925) April 10 Ryszard Kaczorowski, Polish statesman (b. 1919) Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland (b. 1949) April 14 – Peter Steele, American musician (b. 1962) April 16 – Tomáš Špidlík, Czech cardinal (b. 1919) April 19 – Guru, American rapper (b. 1966) April 21 – Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official (b. 1920) April 25 – Alan Sillitoe, British writer (b. 1928) April 30 – Paul Mayer, German cardinal (b. 1911) May Lena Horne Gary Coleman Dennis Hopper May 2 – Lynn Redgrave, British actress (b. 1943) May 4 – Luigi Poggi, Italian cardinal (b. 1917) May 5 Giulietta Simionato, Italian opera singer (b. 1910) Umaru Yar'Adua, President of Nigeria (b. 1951) May 8 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess grandmaster (b. 1911) May 9 – Lena Horne, American singer and actress (b. 1917) May 10 – Frank Frazetta, American artist (b. 1928) May 15 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer (b. 1987) May 16 Ronnie James Dio, American musician (b. 1942) Oswaldo López Arellano, Honduran two-time former president (b. 1921) Hank Jones, American pianist (b. 1918) May 17 Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian singer (b. 1925) Khattiya Sawasdipol, Thai army general (b. 1951) Yvonne Loriod, French pianist (b. 1924) May 18 – Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (b. 1930) May 22 – Martin Gardner, American science author (b. 1914) May 24 Paul Gray, American musician (b. 1972) Anneliese Rothenberger, German singer (b. 1924) May 28 – Gary Coleman, American actor, voice artist and comedian (b. 1968) May 29 – Dennis Hopper, American actor, filmmaker, photographer and artist (b. 1936) May 31 – Louise Bourgeois, French-born American sculptor (b. 1911) June Andrei Voznesensky José Saramago Algirdas Brazauskas June 1 – Andrei Voznesensky, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1933) June 2 – Giuseppe Taddei, Italian baritone (b. 1916) June 3 Vladimir Arnold, Soviet-Russian mathematician (b. 1937) Rue McClanahan, American actress (b. 1934) June 9 – Marina Semyonova, Russian ballerina (b. 1908) June 10 – Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (b. 1941) June 14 – Leonid Kizim, Soviet-Ukrainian cosmonaut (b. 1941) June 16 – Ronald Neame, British cinematographer, producer and director (b. 1911) June 18 Marcel Bigeard, French military officer (b. 1916) José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922) June 19 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962) June 23 – Mohammed Mzali, former Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1925) June 26 – Algirdas Brazauskas, 9th President of Lithuania (b. 1932) June 28 – Robert Byrd, American politician (b. 1917) July Harvey Pekar July 2 – Beryl Bainbridge, British novelist (b. 1934) July 3 – Abu Daoud, Palestinian militia commander (b. 1937) July 4 – Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese spiritual leader (b. 1935) July 5 Cesare Siepi, Italian opera singer (b. 1923) Nasr Abu Zayd, Egyptian Qur'anic theologian (b. 1943) July 12 – Harvey Pekar, American comic book writer (b. 1939) July 14 – Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor (b. 1925) July 17 – Bernard Giraudeau, French actor and film director (b. 1947) July 21 – Luis Corvalán, Chilean politician (b. 1916) July 24 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (b. 1949) August Patricia Neal Francesco Cossiga Francisco Varallo August 5 – Godfrey Binaisa, 5th President of Uganda (b. 1920) August 6 – Tony Judt, British historian (b. 1948) August 7 – Bruno Cremer, French actor (b. 1929) August 8 – Patricia Neal, American actress (b. 1926) August 9 – Ted Stevens, American politician (b. 1923) August 10 – Antonio Pettigrew, American athlete (b. 1967) August 12 – Guido de Marco, 6th President of Malta (b. 1931) August 13 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (b. 1980) August 16 – Nicola Cabibbo, Italian physicist (b. 1935) August 17 – Francesco Cossiga, 63rd Prime Minister and 8th President of Italy (b. 1928) August 18 – Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish aristocrat (b. 1930) August 22 – Stjepan Bobek, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1923) August 23 – Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime film director (b. 1963) August 26 William Lenoir, American astronaut (b. 1939) Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (b. 1918) August 27 – Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka (b. 1934) August 28 – Sinan Hasani, 10th President of Yugoslavia (b. 1922) August 30 Alain Corneau, French filmmaker (b. 1943) Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer (b. 1910) August 31 – Laurent Fignon, French road bicycle racer (b. 1960) September Tony Curtis September 5 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese MotoGP racer (b. 1990) September 9 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess grandmaster (b. 1935) September 11 – Kevin McCarthy, American actor (b. 1914) September 12 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (b. 1930) September 22 – Eddie Fisher, American entertainer and singer (b. 1928) September 24 – Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician; mastermind of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt (b. 1937) September 26 – Gloria Stuart, American actress (b. 1910) September 28 – Arthur Penn, American film director (b. 1922) September 29 Georges Charpak, French Nobel physicist (b. 1924) Tony Curtis, American actor (b. 1925) September 30 – Stephen J. Cannell, American writer and television producer (b. 1941) October Benoit Mandelbrot Néstor Kirchner October 4 – Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (b. 1915) October 7 – Milka Planinc, former Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1924) October 9 – Maurice Allais, French Nobel economist (b. 1911) October 10 Solomon Burke, American soul musician (b. 1940) Hwang Jang-yop, North Korean politician and defector (b. 1923) October 11 – Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer (b. 1926) October 14 – Benoît Mandelbrot, French-American mathematician (b. 1924) October 16 – Barbara Billingsley, American actress (b. 1915) October 19 – Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927) October 20 – Farooq Leghari, 9th President of Pakistan (b. 1940) October 23 – David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1961) October 25 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican musician (b. 1951) October 27 – Néstor Kirchner, 54th President of Argentina (b. 1950) October 28 – Jonathan Motzfeldt, 1st Prime Minister of Greenland (b. 1938) October 30 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch writer (b. 1927) November Leslie Nielsen November 2 – Rudolf Barshai, Soviet-Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924) November 3 – Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1938) November 5 Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944) Hajo Herrmann, German fighter pilot and lawyer (b. 1913) November 10 – Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer (b. 1919) November 12 – Henryk Górecki, Polish composer (b. 1933) November 13 – Luis García Berlanga, Spanish film director (b. 1921) November 17 – Isabelle Caro, French model and actress (b. 1980) November 27 – Irvin Kershner, American film director (b. 1923) November 28 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1926) November 29 Bella Akhmadulina, Soviet-Russian poet (b. 1937) Mario Monicelli, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1915) December Richard Holbrooke December 10 – John B. Fenn, American Nobel chemist (b. 1917) December 12 – Tom Walkinshaw, British racing car driver and team owner (b. 1946) December 13 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat (b. 1941) December 15 – Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922) December 17 – Captain Beefheart, American musician (b. 1941) December 21 – Enzo Bearzot, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1927) December 25 – Carlos Andrés Pérez, 55th President of Venezuela (b. 1922) December 26 Salvador Jorge Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926) Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1956) December 30 Ellis Clarke, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1917) Bobby Farrell, West Indian-born Dutch dancer (Boney M.) (b. 1949)

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

William Safire

William Safire, Nixon Speechwriter and Times Columnist, Is Dead at 79

William Safire, a speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon
and a Pulitzer Prize-winning political columnist for The New
York Times who also wrote books on politics and a treasury of
articles on language, has died at age 79.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Irving Kristol

Irving Kristol, Godfather of Neoconservatism, Is Dead at 89

Irving Kristol, the political commentator who, as much as
anyone, defined modern conservatism and helped revitalize the
Republican Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s,
setting the stage for the Reagan presidency and the years of
conservative dominance that followed, died Friday. He was 89.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Patrick Swayze

Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze, best known for his roles in the hit films "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," has died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer, his publicist said Monday.

Mary Travers

Mary Travers, one-third of the popular 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary who were perhaps best known for their hit "Puff (The Magic Dragon)," died in a Connecticut hospital after battling leukemia for several years. She was 72.

Henry Gibson

Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In," has died. He was 73.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Edward M. Kennedy

Edward M. Kennedy, Senate Stalwart, Dies at 77

Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, a son of one of
the most storied families in American politics, a man who
knew triumph and tragedy in near-equal measure and who will
be remembered as one of the most effective lawmakers in the
history of the Senate, died late Tuesday night. He was 77.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/us/politics/27kennedy.html

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Robert D. Novak

Robert D. Novak, Conservative Columnist, Is Dead at 78

Robert D. Novak, the pugnacious political columnist and cable
television fixture whose scoops reached across five decades
and whose nickname, "the prince of darkness," was invoked
with renewed fervor in 2003 when, acting on a tip, he
revealed the name of a C.I.A. officer, setting the stage for
a criminal investigation, died Tuesday at his home in
Washington. He was 78.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Is Dead at 88

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent
families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort
to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
died Tuesday morning. She was 88.

A sister of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F.
Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy and the mother-in-law of Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Mrs. Shriver never held
elective office. Yet she was no stranger to Capitol Hill, and
some view her work on behalf of the mentally retarded,
including the founding of the Special Olympics, as the most
lasting of the Kennedy family's contributions.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Corazon Aquino, Ex-Leader of Philippines, Is Dead

Corazon Aquino, Ex-Leader of Philippines, Is Dead. Former Philippines President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a "people power" revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years,
died on Saturday, her son said, The Associated Press reported. She was 76.

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Frank McCourt

Sunday, July 19, 2009 -- 6:42 PM ET
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Frank McCourt, Author of 'Angela's Ashes,' Dies at 78

Frank McCourt, a former New York City schoolteacher who
turned his miserable childhood in Limerick, Ireland, into a
phenomenally popular, Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir,
"Angela's Ashes," died on Sunday, his publisher said.

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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite, Longtime Anchor, Is Dead at 92

Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of
television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that
he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at
his home in New York. He was 92.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/walter-cronkite-iconic-anchorman-dies/?emc=na


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/us/18cronkite.html?emc=na

Monday, July 6, 2009

Robert McNamara

Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara Dies at 93

Former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara died Monday,
according to his wife, The Associated Press reported. Mr.
McNamara, who led the Defense Department during the Vietnam
war under presidents Kennedy and Johnson, was 93.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Karl Malden

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 -- 4:12 PM ET
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Karl Malden, Everyman Actor, Dies at 97

Karl Malden, the Academy Award-winning character actor whose
half-century in show business carried him from the theater to
films and then to television, where he policed the streets of
San Francisco and became indelibly identified with a
commercial for traveler's checks, died Wednesday at his home
in Los Angeles. He was 97.

Michael Jackson

Thursday, June 25, 2009 -- 6:32 PM ET
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Michael Jackson Is Dead, A.P. Reports

Michael Jackson, the pop star, has died, The Associated Press
reported, citing a person with knowledge of the situation.
Earlier, Mr. Jackson, unconscious, had been rushed to a Los
Angeles hospital.