Dennis Stock, Magnus photographer known for iconic photos of James Dean
Bobby Charles, Louisiana singer and songwriter who wrote hits including Fats Domino's "Walking to New Orleans," Bill Haley and the Comets' "See You Later, Alligator"
Jay Reatard, punk musician
Carl Smith, dapper country singer of the 1950s
Glen Bell Jr., founder of Taco Bell
Erich Segal, classics scholar who taught at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Oxford, but was best known for writing the sappy novel Love Story
Kate McGarrigle, Canadian folk singer and mother of Rufus Wainright
Robert B. Parker, writer of the Spenser mystery series
Dan Fitzgerald, coach who built Gonzaga into a national power
Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian writer and musician. Whale Music was a prize winning novel. (Putnam's Tomahawk Chop)
Jean Simmons, actress whose career included roles in Black Narcissus, Hamlet, and Spartacus
Earl Wild, one of the last 19th century style piano virtuosos
James Mitchell, actor who played ruthless tycoon Palmer Cortlandt on "All My Children"
Bob Noorda, designed graphic look of the New York Subway
Pernell Roberts, played Adam Cartwright in "Bonanza"
Louis Auchincloss, 92, novelist and lawyer who wrote of the decline of the old WASP world (Molly Bloom, the Dog of Doom)
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, actress best known for playing the psychic in the Poltergeist movies ( Go Fish, Joe R., Team Dirt)
Howard Zinn, historian and activist whose 1980 book "A People's History of the United States" was a rallying cry for the American left in a conservative era
J. D. Salinger, 91, American writer known for The Catcher in the Rye (Lisa)
Andrew Lange, astrophysicist whose balloon-borne measurements of light left from the Big Bang played a key role in understanding the shape and nature of the universe; until recently, the chair of the division of physics, mathematics, and astronomy at CalTech
Jane Jarvis, "Melody Queen of Shea Stadium", who played the organ there from 1964 to 1979
Viva Leroy Nash, America's oldest death row inmate, 94
Dale Hawkins, had a hit with his song "Susie Q"
Kathryn Grayson, star of movie musicals like Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate in the 40s and 50s
Lionel Jeffries, British actor and director who wrote the screenplay for and directed The Railway Children
Jack Babcock, Canada's last World War I veteran, 109. He got into the army at 15 and was disappointed that he never saw combat.
Ronald Howes, Sr., inventor of the Easy Bake Oven
John Kibler, umpire for Bill Buckner's error
Fran Lee, consumer advocate who championed New York's "pooper-scooper" law
Alexander Haig, Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Albert M. Kligman, dermatologist whose research led to the acne and wrinkle drug Retin-A but whose pioneering work was overshadowed by his experiments with prisoners
Andrew Koenig, actor who portrayed a character with the unfortunate name "Boner"
Mable Hoffman, wrote Crockery Cookery, best selling cookbookfor the crockpot, then a new invention
Peter Graves, 83, actor best known for "Mission Impossible" (Stiff Competition)
He Pingping, shortest man in the world at 2' 5" (74.6 cm)
Dr Arnall Patz, ophthalmologist who discovered that oxegen was what was causing blindness among premature babies in incubators
Charles Moore, photographer whose news photos showing lawmen using dogs and fire hoses aginst civil rights demonstrators helped that movement gain traction
Alex Chilton, cult musician who first had a hit with "The Letter", then formed the influential band Big Star
Fess Parker, actor who portrayed Davy Crockett and Dan'l Boone for Disney, though he wanted to take on urbane, sophisticated roles
Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior in the 60s who sowed the seeds for the modern environmental movement
Liz Carpenter, author and former press secretary to first lady Lady Bird Johnson
Sid Fleischman, Newberry Medal-winning children's writer for The Whipping Boy, and author of many other books
Jerry Adler, harmonica virtuoso whose playing can be heard on the soundtracks to Shane, High Noon, Mary Poppins, and others. He was overshadowed by his more famous older brother Larry.
Jim Marshall, photographer of rock musicians
Robert Culp, actor who was the white guy on "I Spy"
Colleen Kay Hutchins Vandeweghe, Miss America 1952
Robert White, first pilot to go Mach 4, 5, and 6
Baron Mikel Scicluna, pro wrestling heel
Donald N. Frey, designer of the Mustang
June Havoc, vaudeville star and actor
Jaime Escalante, math teacher who transformed a tough East LA high school and inspired the film Stand and Deliver
David Mills, writer for police dramas "LAPD Blue", "The Wire", "Homicide: Life on the Streets", and others
Jerald F. terHorst, White House press secretary who resigned over President Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon
Henry Edward Roberts, creator of the Altair 8800 computer
Eugene Allen, White House butler for eight presidents
Al Ross, opened the first Doggie Diner in 1948
Albert Rodda, former California state Senator who represented Sacramento from 1958 - 1980. His best known legislation gave teachers the right to collective bargaining. (Hi Mom!)
Corin Redgrave, brother of Lynn and Vanessa, actor and activist
Wilma Mankiller, first woman to lead the Cherokee nation
Malcolm McLaren, impresario and manager who claimed to have invented punk
Derek Crozier, 92, longest running contributor to the Irish Times as the compiler of their Crosaire crossword for over 67 years
Christopher Cazenove, actor who played Ben Carrington on "Dynasty"
Morris Jeppson, weapons test officer abord the Enola Gay who helped arm the atomic bomb
Timothy White, kidnapped by Kenneth Parnell in 1980 when he was five. Steven Staynor, who had been kidnapped by Mr Parnell seven years earlier, helped him escape.
Lech Kaczynskik, president of Poland
Meinhardt Raabe, 94, oldest living Munchkin from The Wizard of Oz
Dixie Carter, actress best known for her role as Julia Sugarbaker on "Designing Women"
Arthur Mercante Sr., boxing's most prominent referee of the past half-century. He was a presence at more than 140 championship boxing matches indluing the 1971 Ali-Frazier "Fight of the Century"
Anna Walentynowicz, labor leader whose firing as a crane operator at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in 1980 touched off the strike that led to the founding of Solidarity and the unraveling of Communism in Poland
Benjamin Hooks, civil rights icon
Peter Steele, singer for metal band Type O Negative
Daryl Gates, former LA police chief known for his agressive approach to crime
Mary Stoner Sage, librarian, poet, and 105 year old survivor of the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906
Alejandro Robaina, international symbol of the Cuban tobacco industry
Dede Allen, film editor on The Hustler and Bonnie and Clyde
Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official who served as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001
Whitney R. Harris, last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg Trials
Alicia Parlette, 28, journalist and copy editor who wrote about her cancer for the San Francisco Chronicle ( Go Fish)
Alan Sillitoe, British writer and one of the "Angry Young Men", wrote Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner among others
Franklin Mieuli, eccentric former owner of the Golden State Warriors
Alice Miller, child psychologist whose The Drama of the Gifted Child was a big deal for many of us
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Dorothy Provine, actress who was Milton Berle's wife and Ethel Merman's daughter in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Rosa Rio, legendary theater, radio, and TV organist, 108
Edward G. Uhl, former president of Fairchild Industries, who was also the co-inventor of the M1 bazooka
Mildred E. Orton, a founder of The Vermont Country Store, 99
Prof. Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, audio pioneer and founder of the Sennheiser electronics company, 98
John Shepherd-Barron, Scotsman credit with inventing the automated teller machine in the 1960s
Moishe Rosen, founder of the evangelical Christian group Jews for Jesus (Gregor, a former champion in this pool, greatly enjoyed debating his followers)
Former U.S. Rep. Donald "Buz" Lukens of Ohio, a rising conservative star in state politics before a string of scandals abruptly ended his career (he was convicted of paying a 16 year old girl for sex)
Denise Boudrot, pioneering female jockey with more than 1000 victories and the first to win a meet title when she captured the autumn riding title at Suffolk Downs in 1974
Dorothy "Dottie" Kamenshek, female ballplayer whose expolits with the Georgia Peaches inspired A League of Their Own
Bernard Schoenbaum, New Yorker cartoonist who ridiculed the wealthy
Martin Gardner, American mathematics and science writer who specialized in recreational mathematics and puzzles. I knew him for The Annotated Alice
Jose Lima, Dominican right-handed 20-game-winning pitcher who played for the Tigers, Royals, Astros, Dodgers, and Mets
David E. Durston, wrote and directed I Drink Your Blood
Simon Monjack, TV writer and widower of actress Brittany Murphy
Rue McClanahan, 76, actress best known for "Maude" and "Golden Girls" (Hank)
Chris Haney, co-inventor of "Trivial Pursuit"
Himan Brown, developer of radio dramas, including "The Inner Sanctum". He was 99.
Marvin Isley of the Isley Brothers
Jack Harrison, believed to be the last of the Allied prisoners of war who attempted to escape from Stalag Luft III during WWII, dramatized in The Great Escape. Mr Harrison took up marathon running in his 70s to raise money for charity.
Bobby Kromm, former coach of the Detroit Red Wings
Crispian St. Peters, singer of the 1966 hit "The Pied Piper". Most of you have forgotten or never knew this song, but I am not so lucky.
Jimmy Dean, country music singer ("Big Bad John"), actor, and sausage maker
Garry Shider, guitarist for Parliament-Funkadelic
Bertha "B" Holt, North Carolina legislator known for her work to repeal a law that said husbands couldn't be charted with raping their wives
Ronald Neame, 99, producer or director of dozens of films including Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, and The Poseidon Adventure
Jose Saramago, Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998
Manute Bol, Somalian basketball player and humanitarian
Raymond Parks, last member of the group who formed NASCAR in 1947 and its first dominant team owner
Edith Shain, 91, nurse whose V-J day kiss from a sailor in Times Square was immortalized in a Life photo
Prescott S. Bush Jr, brother of one president and uncle of another
Pete Quaife, original bassist for The Kinks. He left in 1969 and became a graphic artist in Denmark. After he was diagnosed with kidney failure, he documented his experiences in cartoons collected in two books titled The Lighter Side of Dialysis.Robert Byrd, 92 United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010. (Graydon, Lisa)
Corey Allen, actor who played the gang leader in Rebel Without a Cause and challenges James Dean to a "chicken run"
Allyn Ferguson, Emmy Award-winning composer for television and a co-writer of the themes for the shows “Charlie’s Angels” and “Barney Miller,” along with a lot of other TV music
Don Coryell, San Diego Chargers head coach, considered an architect of the modern passing game used today
Louis Moyroud, co-inventor of the process of phototypesetting
Hank Cochran, songwriter who wrote "Make the World Go Away" for Eddy Arnold and co-wrote "I Fall to Pieces" with Hank Harlan
Jim Bohlen, whose snap decision to sail to Amchitka Island, Alaska, to protest an underground nuclear test led to the creation of the Greenpeace organization
Sir Charles Mackerras, Australian conductor who was an authority on the operas of Janácek and Mozart, and the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan.
James Gammon, squint-eyed, frog-voiced character actor best known as the manager in Major League
Luo Pinchao, world's oldest opera singer, of the Cantonese Opera, 98
Peter Fernandez, voiced Speed Racer in the United States
Andy Hummel, base player in Big Star's original line-up
David Warren, Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder, aka "black box" (not in a plane crash, but his father died in one, which was part of his inspiration for the invention)
Ralph Houk, managed Yankees, Tigers, and Red Sox
Daniel Schorr, veteran Washington journalist and senior news analyst for NPR, famously reported that he was on Nixon's "enemies list"
Alex Higgins, two-time snooker world champion
Jack Tatum, hard-hitting safety for the Oakland Raiders
John Barbero, public address announcer at Pittsburgh Penguins games for more than 30 years
John Callahan, alcoholic quadriplegic cartoonist whose cynical, hilarious cartoons pushed the limits of taste. This one was accidentally published by the Washington Post and led to his firing.
Ivy Bean, 104, world's oldest Twitter user
John Aylesworth, co-creator of "Hee Haw". They wanted to create a show that combined "Laugh-In" and "The Beverly Hillbillies".
Suso Cecci D'Amico, Italian screenwriter of such films as Bicycle Thieves and The Leopard
Mitch Miller, 99, bandleader, musician, and procducer best known as the host of "Sing Along with Mitch" (Graydon, Hank, Stiff Competition)
Dan Rostenkoski, former United States representative from the Chicago area
Phelps "Catfish" Collins, guitarist for Parliament Funkadelic
Richie Hayward, drummer and co-founder of Little Feat
Isaac Bonewits, Pagan author and theologian
David Wolper, 82, TV and film producer responsible for "Roots", "The Thorn Birds", L.A. Confidential, and the 1971 version of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory among others (MCR)
James J. Kilpatrick, conservative newspaper editor and columnist, author and television guest
David Wolper, producer of "Roots," "The Thorn Birds," and others
Bobby Thomson, 86, who hit the "shot heard 'round the world" and won the pennant for the Giants in 1951 (Lizzie)
Abbey Lincoln, jazz singer and songwriter
Francesco Cossiga, former Italian president
Joe E. Brown, general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates who built two World Series champion teams and five NL Division champion teams
Richard "Scar" Lopez, founder of Cannibal and the Headhunters who had a hit in 1965 with "Land of 1000 Dances"
Dave McElhatton, Bay Area radio and TV personality
Michael Been, singer of the band The Call
Satoshi Kon, anime filmmaker
George David Weiss, wrote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," "Can't Help Falling in Love With You," "Wonderful World", others
Edward Kean, chief writer for the Howdy Doody show
Luna Vachon, former WWE women's wrestler
Laurent Fignon, 50, two-time Tour de France champion (Team Dirt)
Corinne Day, fashion and fine art photographer credited with discovering Kate Moss
Eddie Fisher, singer best known for divorcing Debbie Reynolds to marry Elizabeth Taylor, and being Carrie Fisher's dad
George Blanda, former quarterback and Raiders kicker
Gloria Stuart, actress who starred in movies in the 30s (she was Claude Rains' girfriend in The Invisible Man and was nominated for an academy award for her role in Titanic in 1997. She was also a respected painter and book designer.
Sally Menke, edited all of Quentin Tarantino's films from Reservoir Dogs to Inglourious Basterds
Arthur Penn, stage, TV, and move director (Bonnie and Clyde, The Miracle Worker, Alice's Restaurant, Little Big Man, Missouri Breaks, etc.
Greg Giraldo, comedian
Tony Curtis, 85, actor and father of Jamie Lee Curtis which is why I had him confused with Eddie Fisher (Bloody Mary)
Stephen J. Cannell, created "The Rockford Files" and "The A-Team"
Joe Mantell, character actor who co-starred and received and Oscar nomination for Marty. He played Jack Nicholson's detective partner in Chinatown and spoke the film's famous last line: "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown."
Benoit Mandelbrot, mathematician largely responsible for developing the field of fractal geometry
Barbara Billingsley, 94, June on "Leave it to Beaver" and speaker of Jive (Graydon, Stiff Competition)
Belva Plain, became a best-selling author at 59 with Evergreen
David D. Miller, founder of Miller's Output retail stores
Freddy "Sez" Schuman, Yankees stadium regular who rallied fans by carrying home made signs and banging a frying pan
Tom Bosley, actor who made his name on Broadway in "Fiorello!", then played various film and TV roles but is probably best known as Howard Cunningham on "Happy Days"
Bob Guccione, founder of Penthouse magazine
Ari Up (Arianna Foster) of the Slits
Paul the Octopus, who corrected predicted the outcome of the World Cup and was denounced by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as “a symbol of all that is wrong with the western world”
Alexander Anderson Jr., created Rock and Bullwinkle and others, then went into advertising
Leo Cullum, New Yorker cartoonist
Joseph Stein, writer of the Broadway musical and film Fiddler on the Roof
Nestor Kirchner, former president of Argentina and husband of its current president, Cristina Fernandez
Fluffy, world's longest snake, a 24 foot reticulated python, age 18
James MacArthur, played "Danno" on the original "Hawaii Five-O"
Lisa Blount, actress who played Debra Winger's cynical friend in An Officer and a Gentleman
James Wall, vaudevillian actor who played Captain Kangaroo's pal Mr Baxter
Theodore C. Sorensen, writer and counselor to John F. Kennedy
Maurice Lucas, 58, Blazers basketball star (Go Fish)