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Eddy Arnold (country singer) -- Dead. Died May 8, 2008. Born May 15, 1918.  Best known for "Make the World Go Away" and "That's What I Get for Loving You".

Charlton Heston (Actor/NRA activist) -- Dead. Alzheimer's. Died April 5, 2008. Born October 4, 1923. Best known for The Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man.

Richard Widmark (actor) -- Dead. Died March 24, 2008. Born December 26, 1914. Best known in "Kiss of Death", "Judgment at Nuremburg", "The Bedford Incident", "Madigan" and"The Long Ships".

Paul Scofield (Actor) -- Dead. Leukemia. Died March 19, 2008. Born January 21, 1922. Actor, best-known for A Man for All Seasons and Quiz Show.

Arthur C. Clarke (author) -- Dead. Post Polio Syndrome. Died March 19, 2008. Born December 16, 1917. Science fiction author best known for 2001: A Space Odyssey. He predicted the use of satellites for telecommunications years before they became a reality.

Anthony Minghella (director) -- Dead. Hemorrhage. Died March 17, 2008. Born January 6, 1954. Best known as director of Truly, Madly, Deeply, The English Patient, Cold Mountain.

Jeff Healey (musician) -- Dead. Cancer. Died March 2, 2008. Born March 25, 1966. Healey was considered a prodigy and earned numerous Juno and Grammy nominations in the course of his career. He lost both his eyes to retinoblastoma before he was eight months old.

David Groh (actor) -- Dead. Kidney cancer. Died February 12, 2008. Born May 21, 1939. Played Valerie Harper's husband in Rhoda.

Roy Scheider (actor) -- Dead. Multiple myeloma/staph infection. Died February 10, 2008. Born November 10, 1932. Best known for Jaws, The French Connection, All That Jazz, 2010 and Blue Thunder.

Shell Kepler (actress) -- Dead. Renal failure. Died February 1, 2008. Born October 5, 1958. Nurse Vining on General Hospital.

Barry Morse (actor) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died February 2, 2008. Born June 10, 1918. Best known for roles including The Fugitive and Space: 1999.

Margaret Truman  (author) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died 01/29/2008. Born 02/17/1924. Widely noted throughout her life as Margaret Truman, born Mary Margaret Truman was a singer who later became a successful writer. She was the only child of Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States) and his wife Bess Truman.

Gordon Hinckley (religious leader) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died 01/27/2008. Born 06/23/1910. Hinckley was an American religious leader who served as the fifteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 12, 1995 until his death. He was the oldest person to preside over the church in its history.

Christian Brando (son of Marlon Brando) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died 01/26/2008. Born 05/11/1958. Christian was the eldest child of actor Marlon Brando. He was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the death of the boyfriend of his half-sister Cheyenne. On May 16, 1990, Christian Brando shot Dag Drollet to death at Marlon Brando's residence on Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles. He was released from prison in 1996. In 2005, he pled guilty to spousal abuse of his wife, Deborah Presley, and was given probation.

Heath Ledger (actor) -- Dead. Drug overdose. Died January 22, 2008. Born April 29, 1979. Best known for Brokeback Mountain, The Patriot, 10 Things I Hate About You and The Dark Knight.

	Suzanne Pleshette (actress) -- Dead. Lung cancer. Died January 19, 2008. Born January 31, 1937. Best known as Emily on The Bob Newhart Show, married to Tom Poston until his death in 2007.
	Allan Melvin (actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died January 17, 2008. Born February 18, 1922. Barney on Archie Bunker's Place, Sam the butcher on The Brady Bunch.
	Bobby Fischer (chess genius) -- Dead. Died January 17, 2008. Born March 9, 1943. Reclusive chess champion, famously beat Boris Spasky during the '70s and emmigrated to Iceland.

Brad Renfro (actor) -- Dead. Unknown causes. Died January 15, 2008. Born July 25, 1982. The former child star who played a witness to a mob lawyer’s suicide in the 1994 legal thriller “The Client” and a suburban youth tutored in evil by an elderly Nazi war criminal in the 1998 film “Apt Pupil".

Vampira (actress) -- Dead. Cardiac arrest. Died January 10, 2008. Born December 21, 1921. Real name: Maila Nurmi. As the ghoulish and sexy Vampira, Nurmi hosted a late night showcase of horror films on Los Angeles TV in 1954-55, winning her an Emmy Award nomination and a cult following that lasted over 50 years.

Edmund Hillary (mountaineer) -- Dead. Natural Causes. Died 01/11/2008. Born 07/20/1919. the modest New Zealand beekeeper who shot to global fame as the first person to climb Mount Everest on May 29, 1953.

Benazir Bhutto (politician) -- Dead. Assassination. Died 12/27/2007. Born  06/21/1953.  Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan affiliated to the Socialist International. Bhutto was the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state, having been twice elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Oscar Peterson (musician) -- Dead. Kidney failure. Died 12/23/2007. Born 08/15/1925. Internationally renowned, Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson has entertained the world with his mastery and prowess over the piano for over 40 years.

Dan Fogelberg (musician) -- Dead. Prostate cancer. Died 12/16/2007. Born 08/13/1951. Fogelberg scored a series of light-rock hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including the Billboard Top 10 hits "Same Old Lang Syne" and "Longer."

Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman (actor) -- Dead. Complications from Leukemia. Died 12/13/2007. Born 08/17/1936. He made his big screen debut in the movie Renegades (1989) and is best remembered for his role as elder/leader Ten Bear in Dances with Wolves (1990).

Ike Turner (Musician) -- Dead.  Cocaine overdose. Died 12/12/2007. Born 11/05/1931. Ike Turner was an American musician, bandleader, talent scout, and record producer, best known for his work with his former wife Tina Turner. Alongside his former wife, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.

Evel Knievel (Daredevil/Stuntman) -- Dead. Diabetes, pulmonary fibrosis. Died November 30, 2007. Born October 17, 1938. Famous for daredevil motorcycle jumps in the 1970s, Knievel would race his motorcycle up steep ramps and over obstacles, including the fountains in front of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas and a row of 13 double-decker buses at London's Wembley Stadium.

Kevin DuBrow (musician) -- Dead. Cause of death under investigation. Died 11/25/2007. Born 10/29/1955. Best known as the lead singer of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot. During Quiet Riot's commercial heyday in the 1980s, Dubrow was known for his on-stage charisma, gravelly bluesy voice, and suspenders.

Verity Lambert (TV producer) -- Dead. Died 11/22/2007. Born 11/27/1935. First female and youngest producer for BBC television. Best known for Doctor Who. She also produced Adam Adamant Lives!, The Naked Civil Servant, Rock Follies, Minder, Widows, G.B.H., Jonathan Creek and Love Soup.

Dick Wilson (actor) -- Dead.  Natural causes. Died 11/19/2007. Born 07/30/1916. The 91 year old actor and pitchman who played the uptight "Mr. Whipple" begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Ira Levin (writer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died November 13, 2007. Born August 27, 1929. Levin was the author of some of the best-selling suspense novels of the 20th century, among them Rosemary's Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil.

Delbert Mann (director) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died November 11, 2007. Born January 30, 1920. Won an Oscar in 1955 for romantic drama "Marty". Mann's wife, Ann, died in 2001. The couple are survived by three sons, Fred, David and Steven. A daughter, Susan, died in an car accident in 1976.

Laraine Day (actress) -- Dead. Natural causes. Died 11/10/2007. Born 10/13/1917. Best known as Nurse Mary Lamont in Dr. Kildare movies. Married to Leo Durocher.

Norman Mailer (writer) -- Dead. Acute renal  failure. Died 11/10/2007. Born 11/31/1923. Renowned author, critic and journalist. Mailer gained fame over nearly six decades of work, writing dozens of books including The Naked and the Dead and The Executioner's Song.