Brad Renfro, 25, actor, heroin overdose.
Heath Ledger, 28, actor, accidental prescription drug overdose.
Sir Edmund Hillary, 88, mountaineer, heart failure.
Roy Scheider, 75, actor, staph infection.
Jeff Healey, 41, musician, cancer.
Anthony Minghella, 54, director, post-surgery hemorrhage.
Charlton Heston, 84, actor, pneumonia.
Sydney Pollack, 73, director, stomach cancer.
Harvey Korman, 81, actor comedian, aneurysm.
Yves Saint Laurent, 71, fashion designer, brain cancer.
Bo Diddley, 79, blues musician, heart failure.
Tim Russert, 58, journalist, coronary thrombosis.
George Carlin, 71, actor comedian, heart failure.
Jesse Helms, 86. polititian, natural causes.
Olive Riley, 108, world's oldest blogger, natural causes.
Estelle Getty, 84, actress, lewy body dementia.
Randy Pausch, 47, author professor, pancreatic cancer.
Bernie Mac, 50, actor comedian, pneumonia.
Isaac Hayes, 65, musician, stroke.
Paul Newman, 83, actor philanthropist, lung cancer.
Dee Dee Warwick, 63, singer, long illness.
Merl Saunders, 74, musician, stroke.
Michael Crichton, 66, writer, throat cancer.
Mitch Mitchell, 61, drummer, natural causes.
Sunny von Bulow, 76, heiress, cardiopulmoary arrest.
Bettie Paige, 85, pin-up model, heart attack.
Eartha Kitt, 81, singer actress, colon cancer.
Robert Graham, 70, sculptor, long illness.
8 comments:
Ya gotta love The List.
It really helps me play the Croak of the Year Contest. We go for shock and awe + impact on the world.
Who's your's?
I will really miss George Carlin. Loved him.
I was just about to say George Carlin FOR SURE! Paul Newman was another person who made a huge impact.
One more for the list - Majel Barrett, widow of Gene Roddenberry of Star Trek fame. She played Nurse Christine Chapel on the original series. She died December 18 from complications from leukemia.
carlin hurts the most. will miss his
much-needed alternate takes on life.
Duely noted Just Dave.
I so agree Annie.
Know what I love about you? that you posts address death. you're really amazing.
How about the one with least impact on the world - Sunny von Bulow. Wouldn't it suck to be on that list and hav your major accomplishment listed as "heiress"?
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