In Memoriam 2010

Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010 - 12:11 a.m.

Here's a very small list of the people we lost in 2010.

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Rory Markas -- Announcer for the Anaheim Angels
Art Clokey -- Creator of Gumby and Davey & Goliath
Miep Gies -- Protector of Anne Frank and family
Juliet Anderson -- Adult film actress under the name Aunt Peg
Teddy Pendergrass -- R&B singer
Phoebe Prince -- Bullying victim who committed suicide at 15
Erich Segal -- Author of Love Story & screenwriter of Yellow Submarine
Pernell Roberts -- Bonanza actor who -- surprise -- died of cancer.
J. D. Salinger -- Author, Catcher In The Rye
Aaron Ruben -- TV producer, Andy Griffth Show, Gomer Pyle USMC
Frances Reid -- Alice Horton on Days Of Our Lives
Nodar Kumaritashvili -- Georgian Luge competitor
Alexander Haig -- Secretary of State
Phil Harris -- Fisherman & cast member of Deadliest Catch
Walter Fredrick Morrison -- inventor of the Frisbee
Dick Francis -- British jockey and novelist
John Babcock -- Canada's last WWI veteran
Andrew Koenig -- son of Walter
Donald Frey -- co-creator of the Ford Mustang
Merlin Olsen -- Football player and actor
Peter Graves -- Actor, Mission Impossible & Airplane
Charlie Gillett -- British musicologist who discovered Dire Straits
Fess Parker -- American actor & vintner
Corey Haim -- A Lost Boy in more ways than one
Dick Giordano -- Comic book artist and editor
June Havoc -- Canadian born American actress
Ed Roberts -- Developer of the Altair 8800
George Nissen -- co-inventor of the trampoline
Dixie Carter -- Actress, Designing Women
Michael Pataki -- Actor who thought the Enterprise should be hauled away AS garbage
Carl Macek -- Anime proponent
Lynn Redgrave -- English actress
Edward Uhl -- co-inventor of the bazooka
Lena Horne -- Singer and actress
Phyllis Hodges Boyce -- One of two actresses who played Bonnie Blue Butler
Ronnie James Dio -- Singer & musician
Ray Alan -- British ventriloquist. I'm glad I didn't go to THAT funeral.
Art Linkletter -- TV host
Gary Coleman -- Actor, Diff'rent Strokes
Dennis Hopper -- Actor & director
Jeanne Robinson -- Dancer & novelist, wife of Spider
Dame Pat Evison -- Actress who played Tim's mother in the Mel Gibson film
Rue McClanahan -- Actress, Maude, The Golden Girls
Al Williamson -- Comic book artist
Manute Bol -- Sudanese basketball player
Edith Shain -- Nurse in VJ Day photograph
Bill Aucoin -- Band manager for KISS
Bob Sheppard -- Announcer, New York Yankees and New York Giants
James P Hogan -- Science fiction author & critical thinker
George Steinbrenner -- Owner, New York Yankees
Seymour London -- Inventor of the blood pressure cuff
Peter Fernandez -- Voice actor, Speed Racer
James Gammon -- Character actor who makes people say "Oh yeah, THAT guy!"
David Warren -- Inventor of the flight data recorder
Maury Chaykin -- Actor, WarGames, Dances With Wolves
Bernie West -- Screenwriter for All In The Family
Mitch Miller -- Music executive and TV host
Patricia Neal -- Klaatu Barada Nikto
Isaac Bonewits -- Neopagan & Archdruid
Jack Horkheimer -- Star Gazer who told us to keep looking up
George David Weiss -- Composer, What A Wonderful World, Can't Help Falling In Love
Joe Espinosa -- Firefighter and my father-in-law, suicide by hanging. 1 800 273 8255
Cammie King -- the OTHER actress who played Bonnie Blue Butler
Mike Edwards -- Cellist, ELO, killed in a van by a rolling hay bale
John Kluge -- Billionaire who paid for Craig Shergold's brain surgery
Billie Mae Richards -- Voice actress who played Rudolph
Kevin McCarthy -- Actor, Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Harold Gould -- Actor who played Rhoda Morgenstern's father
Leonard Skinner -- School teacher and band namesake
Eddie Fisher -- Singer and entertainer
Gloria Stuart -- Actress, Titanic, The Invisible Man
Jimi Heselden -- Owner of Segway company, drove Segway off of a cliff
Stephen J Cannell -- American TV writer and producer
Simon MacCorkindale -- Actor, Manimal, Death On The Nile
Barbara Billingsley -- Actress who spoke jive and played June Cleaver on Leave It To Beaver
Tom Bosley -- Actor, Happy Days & Father Dowling Mysteries
Bob Guccione -- Publisher of Penthouse magazine
Mike Esposito -- Comic book artist
Lisa Blount -- Actress who played Lynette in An Officer And a Gentleman
James MacArthur -- Actor who played Danno on the original Hawaii Five-O
Jill Clayburgh -- American actress
Dino De Laurentiis -- Film producer who tackled Dune
Leslie Nielsen -- Actor who had an entirely different kind of funeral
Elizabeth Edwards -- Wife who deserved better than that asshole she married
Blake Edwards -- American film director
Captain Beefheart -- Avant Garde musician
Steve Landesberg -- Actor, Barney Miller
Bud Greenspan -- Olympic Filmmaker
Teena Marie -- American singer and composer

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All right, that's it.

See you next year!

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