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