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Karl Malden

Karl Malden (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Died July 1, 2009. Born March 22, 1912. Best known as Lt. Mike Stone in The Streets of San Francisco. Among Malden's more than 50 film credits were Patton, On the Waterfront, and A Streetcar Named Desire.

Mollie Sugden

Mollie Sugden (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Died July 1, 2009. Born July 21, 1922. Best known for her portrayal of the daft Mrs. Slocombe in the Britcom Are You Being Served?

Jan Rubes

Jan Rubes (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Died June 30, 2009. Born June 6, 1920. Opera Singer, Broadcaster and Actor. Best known as the Amish grandfather in Witness with Harrison Ford.

Harve Presnell

Harve Presnell (actor/singer) | ADD COMMENT |

Pancreatic cancer. Died June 30, 2009. Born September 14, 1933. Best known for the films The Unsinkable Molly Brown and Fargo.

Fred Travalena

Fred Travalena (comedian) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died June 28, 2009. Born October 6, 1942. Best known as "The Man of 1000 Faces". Travalena did impressions of celebs such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Bob Hope. He was a regular on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Billy Mays

Billy Mays (pitchman) | ADD COMMENT |

Heart Disease. Died June 28, 2009. Born July 20, 1958. Best known as the spokesman for OxiClean, Orange Glo and many other products.

Gale Storm

Gale Storm (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Died June 27, 2009. Born April 5, 1922. Best known as one of televisions earliest, biggest stars on My Little Margie and The Gale Storm Show.

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson (singer) | ADD COMMENT |

Cardiac arrest. Died June 25, 2009. Born August 29, 1958. Best known as the King of Pop. Jackson had a string of hits with the Jackson 5 before launching his solo career and the albums Thriller and Bad.

Farrah Fawcett

Farrah Fawcett (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died June 25, 2009. Born February 2, 1947. Best known as a pin up girl and actress in roles such as Charlie's Angels and movie The Burning Bed.

Ed McMahon

Ed McMahon (television) | ADD COMMENT |

Pneumonia. Died June 23, 2009. Born March 6, 1923. Best known as Johnny Carson's sidekick on the Tonight Show. Also hosted Star Search and represented Publisher's Clearing House.

Lorena Gale

Lorena Gale (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Stomach cancer. Died June 21, 2009. Born May 9, 1958. Canadian actress best-known as Elosha on Battlestar Galactica. Also had parts in Fantastic Four, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The X-Files: I want to believe, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Bob Bogle

Bob Bogle (musician) | ADD COMMENT |

Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Died June 14, 2009. Best known as the lead guitarist of the band The Ventures, who had hits with Walk, Don't Run and Hawaii Five-O. Bogle was 75 years old.

David Carradine

David Carradine (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Accidental Death. Died June 4, 2009. Born December 8, 1936. Best known for his role in the TV series Kung Fu and the Kill Bill movies.

Millvana Dean

Millvina Dean (Titanic) | ADD COMMENT |

Natural causes. Died May 31, 2009. Best known as the last survivor of the Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912. She was nine weeks old at the time of the disaster, in which her father was one of the 1517 vicitms.

Lucy Gordon

Lucy Gordon (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Suicide. Died May 20, 2009. Born May 22, 1980. Up-and-coming talent who played a role in Spider-Man 3 and as Jane Birkin in a Serge Gainsbourg biopic.

Wayne Allwine

Wayne Allwine (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Complications from Diabetes. Died May 18, 2009. American actor and sound editor, best known as the voice of Mickey Mouse in the films Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Mickey's Christmas Carol.

Chuck Daly

Chuck Daly (basketball coach) | ADD COMMENT |

Pancreatic Cancer. Died May 9, 2009. Born July 20, 1930. Head basketball coach best known for his consecutive NBA Championships in 1989 and 1990 with the Detroit Pistons.

Ean Evans

Ean Evans (musician) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died May 7, 2009. Best known as the bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd. This is the second death in the band this year. In January, Billy Powell, the former keyboardist, also died.

Dom DeLuise

Dom DeLuise (actor/cook) | ADD COMMENT |

Died May 4, 2009. Born August 1, 1933. Best known for his roles in Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and Cannonball Run.

Danny Gans

Danny Gans (comic) | ADD COMMENT |

Died in his sleep. Died May 1, 2009. US comic and impressionist who was named Las Vegas entertainer of the year 11 times.

Vern Gosdin

Vern Gosdin (singer) | ADD COMMENT |

Died April 28, 2009. Born August 5, 1934. Best known as "The Voice". His hits included Set 'em Up Joe, I Can Tell by the Way You Dance, I'm Still Crazy and a duet with Emmylou Harris, Yesterday's Gone.

Bea Arthur

Bea Arthur (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died April 25, 2009. Born May 13, 1923. Best known for the hit TV shows Maude and The Golden Girls. Bea won an Emmy for her role as Dorothy Zbornak in The Golden Girls in 1988.

J. G. Ballard

J. G. Ballard (author) | ADD COMMENT |

Prostate cancer. Died April 19, 2009. Born November 15, 1930. Best known as the novelist of Crash and Empire of the Sun.

Mark Fidrych

Mark Fidrych (pitcher) | ADD COMMENT |

Truck accident. Died April 13, 2009. Born August 14, 1954. Best known as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Accidental death while repairing his vehicle.

Marilyn Chambers

Marilyn Chambers (adult star) | ADD COMMENT |

Died April 12, 2009. Born April 22, 1952. Best known as the the pretty Ivory Snow girl who helped bring hard-core adult films into the mainstream consciousness when she starred in the explicit 1972 movie Behind the Green Door.

Nick Adenhart

Nick Adenhart (pitcher) | ADD COMMENT |

Automobile Accident. Died April 8, 2009. 22 year old pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels.

Tom Braden

Tom Braden (author/co-host) | ADD COMMENT |

Died April 3, 2009. Born February 22, 1917. Braden was an American journalist best known as the author of Eight is Enough, which spawned a popular television program and as the co-host of the CNN show Crossfire.

David Arneson

David Arneson (game creator) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died April 7, 2009. Born October 1, 1947. Arneson teamed up with co-creator Gary Gygax in 1974 to create Dungeons & Dragons, one of the best-known and best-selling role-playing games of all time.

Andy Hallett

Andy Hallett (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Heart failure. Died March 29, 2009. Born August 4, 1975. Best known as Lorne, the friendly demon on the TV series Angel.

Maurice Jarre

Maurice Jarre (composer) | ADD COMMENT |

Died March 29, 2009. Born September 13, 1924. Hollywood's busiest composer, scoring more than 150 films. Won Oscars for the scores for A Passage to India, Dr. Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

Irving Levine

Irving R. Levine (newscaster) | ADD COMMENT |

Died March 26, 2009. Born August 26, 1922. Pioneer of network television coverage of economic issues during his more than 40-year career as a correspondent for NBC News.

Dan Seals

Dan Seals (musician) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died March 25, 2009. Born February 8, 1948. Best known as England Dan as part of the singing duo England Dan & John Ford Coley. Their most popular song was "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight".

Natasha Richardson

Natasha Richardson (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Head injury due to ski accident. Died March 18, 2009. Born May 11, 1963. Best known for The Handmaid's Tale. Daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and wife to Liam Neeson.

Ron Silver

Ron Silver (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Esophageal cancer. Died March 15, 2009. Born July 2, 1946. Silver won a 1988 best actor Tony Award for "Speed-the-Plow" and appeared in such plays as "Hurlyburly" and "Social Security."

Betsy Blair

Betsy Blair (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died March 13, 2009. Born December 11, 1923. Best known for playing the schoolteacher in the 1955 movie Marty, Blair was blacklisted in Hollywood while married to screen legend Gene Kelly.

Jimmy Boyd

Jimmy Boyd (singer/actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died March 7, 2009. Born January 9, 1939. Best known as the singer of the Christmas classic I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus. Also the first husband of Yvonne Craig.

Horton Foote

Horton Foote (writer) | ADD COMMENT |

Died March 4, 2009. Born March 14, 1916. Won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay in 1962 for his adaptation of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey (radio broadcaster) | ADD COMMENT |

Died February 28, 2009. Born September 4, 1918. Radio and broadcast personality best known for his staccato voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story".

Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died February 25, 2009. Born July 20, 1943. Best known for playing Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders.

Philip Jose Farmer

Philip Jose Farmer (writer) | ADD COMMENT |

Died February 25, 2009. Born January 26, 1918. Science Fiction writer best known for his Riverworld series and the earlier World of Tiers series.

Howard Zieff

Howard Zieff (director) | ADD COMMENT |

Parkinson's disease. Died February 22, 2009. Born October 21, 1927. Best known as the Director of Private Benjamin.

Louie Bellson

Louie Bellson (drummer) | ADD COMMENT |

Parkinson's Disease. Died February 14, 2009. Born July 6, 1924. Best known as the drummer for big bands such as Duke Ellington, Bellson married Pearl Bailey.

Blossom Dearie

Blossom Dearie (singer/pianist) | ADD COMMENT |

Died February 7, 2009. Born April 19, 1926. Well known Jazz Musician best known as a member of the Blue Flames. She gained national attention by appearing on the early days of NBC's "Today" show.

Philip Carey

Philip Carey (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Lung Cancer. Died February 6, 2009. Born July 15, 1925. Best known as Asa Buchanan on the TV soap opera One Life to Live.

James Whitmore

James Whitmore (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Lung cancer. Died February 6, 2008. Born October 1, 1921. Supporting roles and occasional leads in movies including The Asphalt Jungle, Oklahoma!, Planet of the Apes, Nuts, The Shawshank Redemption and The Majestic.

Billy Powell

Billy Powell (musician) |ADD COMMENT |

Heart Failure. Died January 28, 2008. Born June 3, 1952. Best known as the keyboardist for the band Lynyard Skynyrd.

John Updike

John Updike (writer) | ADD COMMENT |

Lung cancer. Died January 27, 2008. Born March 18, 1932. Best known as the author of The Witches of Eastwick.

Bob May

Bob May (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Congestive Heart Failure. Died January 18, 2009. Born September 4, 1939. Best known for playing The Robot on the television series Lost in Space.

Ricardo Montalban

Ricardo Montalban (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Died January 14, 2009. Born November 25, 1920. Best known as Mr. Roarke in Fantasy Island and Khan Noonien Singh in the Star Trek TV series and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.

Pat Mcgoohan

Pat McGoohan (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Died January 13, 2009. Born March 19, 1928. Best known for the TV series The Prisoner. Also appeared in Escape from Alcatraz and Braveheart.

Don Galloway

Don Galloway (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Stroke. Died January 8, 2009. Born July 27, 1937. Galloway was best known as Officer Ed Brown in the show Ironside. He also starred in the 1983 movie The Big Chill.

Cheryl Holdridge

Cheryl Holdridge (actress) | ADD COMMENT |

Lung cancer. Died January 5, 2009. Born June 20, 1944. Best known as A Mouseketeer in the '50s. She also played Wally Cleaver's girlfriend for two seasons on Leave It to Beaver.

Pat Hingle

Pat Hingle (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Myelodysplasia. Died January 3, 2009. Born July 19, 1924. Veteran actor whose career included a recurring role as Commissioner Gordon in several Batman movies in the 1990s. Hingle's last movie was Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.

Jett Travolta

Jett Travolta (son of John Travolta) | ADD COMMENT |

Seizure. Died January 2, 2009. Sixteen year old Jett was the eldest child of John Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston.

Bernie Hamilton

Bernie Hamilton (actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Heart Failure. Died December 30, 2008. Born June 12, 1928. Best known as Captain Dobey on the TV series Starsky and Hutch.

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Eartha Kitt (singer/actor) | ADD COMMENT |

Colon cancer Died December 25, 2008. Born January 17, 1927. Best known as the 2nd Catwoman on the Batman TV series. Her best known song was the Christmas staple, Santa Baby.

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Harold Pinter (playwright/director) | ADD COMMENT |

Cancer. Died December 24, 2008. Born October 10, 1930. Produced some of his generation's most influential dramas. Best known as a screenwriter for The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, The Homecoming and Betrayal.

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Robert Mulligan (director) | ADD COMMENT |

Heart disease. Died December 20, 2008. Born August 23, 1925. Best known as the Director of To Kill a Mockingbird and Up the Down Staircase.

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Mark Felt (FBI commander) | ADD COMMENT |

Congestive heart failure. Died December 18, 2008. Born August 17, 1913. Best known as the anonymous source "Deep Throat" that forced president Richard Nixon to resign in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

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Majel Barrett Roddenberry | ADD COMMENT |

Leukemia. Died December 18, 2008. Born February 23, 1936. Wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Also played Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek series and provided the voice of the computer in the Star Trek movies.

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