Various character actors, composers
It had been a slow summer, Concorde and Kursk notwithstanding. I liked that.
- Loretta Young , August 12
- Sir Alec Guinness , August 5
- former Mayor Gill of Woburn, July 22
- Paul Young, of Mike and the Mechanics, July 15
- Meridith MacRae, Billie Jo Bradley on Petticoat Junction, July 14
- Walter Matthau, July 1
- Elizabeth Dooley, "The greatest Red Sox fan there'll ever be" (Ted Williams), June 19
- Nancy Marchand, actor, Lou Grant, The Sopranos, June 18
- Empress Dowager Nagako, of Japan, June 16
- Maria do Carmo Jeronimo, at the time of her death at age 129, the oldest living person (undocumented), June 14
- Peter McWilliams, author, activist for medical marijuana, June 14 of complications from AIDS which, prior to court orders to cease using marijuana, had been controlled by it
- Robert Trent Jones, father of modern golf course architecture, June 14
- Robert J. Lurtsema, mellifluous long-time host of WGBH-FM's Morning Pro Musica, June 12
- Hafez Assad, president of Syria, June 10
- Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist (Shoe), June 8 at age 52 to lymphoma
- Major, the Polar Bear at the Stone Zoo, Stoneham, MA, June 3 at age 33
- Johnnie Taylor
, sang Disco Lady, June 1- Tito Puente
, Latin musician, June 1 - Gordon "Tex" Beneke, Big Band vocalist, May 30 (this
item from stiffs.com)
- Sir John Gielgud
, actor, May 21- Mark Hughes
, Nutralife, age 44, May 21- Dame Barbara Cartland
, prolific romance author, May 21- Jean-Pierre Rampal
, flutist, May 20 - Bill "The Fox" Foster, seen recently on The Man Show, May 10 (this item from stiffs.com)
- Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Actor, May 7 at age 90
- Cardinal John O'Connor
, of New York, May 3- Robert Homme
, TV's Friendly Giant, May 2- Steve Reeves
, played Hercules, May 1- Vickie Sue Robinson
, sang Turn The Beat Around, May 2- David Merrick
, Broadway producer, April 25- Alexander H. Cohen
, Broadway producer, April 22 - Edward Gorey, Author, Illustrator ( The Gashlycrumb Tinies), April 15
- Larry Linville, Major Frank Burns on M*A*S*H, April 10
- Alex Comfort, author The Joy of Sex, March 26
- Malcolm Wilson, Governor of New York, succeeded Nelson Rockefeller, under whom he had served as Lt. Gov., when Rockefeller resigned to become Gerald Ford's Vice President, March 13
- Charles Gray, actor, portrayed Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Mycroft Holmes,
narrated Rocky Horror Picture Show, March 7
- Charles Schultz
, creator of Peanuts, February 12- Tom Landry
, Dallas Cowboys coach, February 12- "Screamin" Jay Hawkins
, sang I Put a Spell on You, February 12- Roger Vadim
, French film director, romanced Catherine Deneuve, married Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, February 11- James Varney
, Ernest goes to Heaven -- KnowWhatIMean, Earl? February 10- Ion Gheorghe Maurer
, Romania's first communist premier, February 8- Sid Abel
, Hockey Hall of Famer, February 8- Derrick Thomas
, played for Kansas City Chiefs, complications of an auto accident, February 8- Bob Collins
, Chicago radio personality, in a light plane crash, February 8- Doug Henning
, Magician, to liver cancer, February 7- "Lonesome" Dave Peverett
, Lead singer of Foghat, to complications of kidney cancer, February 7- Christopher Rios
, 698-pound Rapper Big Pun, February 7- Pavle Bulatovic
, Yugoslavian Defense Minister, assassinated, February 7- Jack Scott
, Journalist, covered SLA, helped Patty Hearst escape from the FBI, February 6- Jim Davis
, 1920s motorcycle champion, February 6- Deborah Laake
, Journalist, author Secret Ceremonies, February 6 - Jim Pansullo, Boston radio personality, January 31
- Craig Claiborne, food editor of the New York Times, January 15
- Hedy Lamarr, inventor of spread spectrum technology, actress, January 19
- Bob Lemon, Hall of Fame pitcher, managed Yankees 1978, 1979 and 1981, January 11
- Nackey Loeb, publisher of the Manchester Union-Leader, January 9
- Don Martin, cartoonist, Mad Magazine, January 7 (this item from stiffs.com)
- Maria de las Mercedes de Bourbon y Orleans, mother of Spain's King Juan Carlos, January 2
- Nat Adderley, jazz musician, brother to Cannonball Adderly, January 2
1999 - Elliot Richardson, former US Attorney General, fired as part of the Watergate-era "Saturday Night Massacre", December 31
- Sarah Knauss, at the time of her death the world's oldest living person, December 30
- Clayton Moore, The Lone Ranger, December 28
- Leonard Goldenson, owned ABC
- Curtis Mayfield, singer-songwriter, December 26
- Bill Bowerman, track coach, co-founded Nike
- Rabbi Cary D. Yales, Temple Isaiah, Lexington, Massachusetts
- Hank Snow, country singer
- Desmond Llewelyn, armorer Q in the James Bond movies. auto accident at age 85
- Joseph Heller, author, December 12
- Madeline Kahn
, to ovarian cancer, December 3- Edmond Safra
, rich banker, in an arson fire in Monaco- Lenny Zakim
, headed New England office of the ADL, of cancer at age 46- On June 15, Governor Cellucci announced that the cable-stayed "Bill Buckner" bridge, which will carry I-93 across the Charles River to meet the newly depressed Central Artery will be named the Leonard Zakim Freedom Bridge, reflecting the bridges Mr. Zakim built in the community.
- Joey Adams
, Borscht-belt comedian. columnist (Just For Laughs)- Charlie Byrd
, musician (Jazz Samba)- Gene Rayburn
, Match Game host - Hsing-Hsing, the giant panda
- Daisy Tan, mother and muse of The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan
- Quentin Crisp, "mother superior of homosexuality", said "An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last chapter missing."
- Donald Mills, last surviving member of the Mills Brothers singing group
- Mary Kay Bergman, voice of female characters on South Park, suicide
- Walter Payton, November 1
- Minoru Chiaki, last survivor of the actors who played the title characters in Seven Samurai
- Hoyt Axton, songwriter (Joy to the World)
- Payne Stewart, golfer, Lear Jet accident
- Senator John Chafee, October 24
- Benno Schmidt, former president of Yale University
- Howard Hencke
, software engineer Jean Shepherd, October 16 - Wilt Chamberlain, October 12
- David Huffman
- Robert "Gorilla Monsoon" Marella
- Judith Exner, reputed mistress to President Kennedy, September 24
- George C. Scott
, September 22- Rev. Kirby Hensley
, founder of the Universal Life Church- Raisa Gorbachev
, September 20- Judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr.
, ordered desegregation of the Boston public schools- Frankie Vaughan
, singer- Robert Rossner
, teacher, author (Year Without an Autumn) - Jim "Catfish" Hunter
- Alan Funt, September 5
- Victor Mature
- Norman Wexler, screenwriter (Saturday Night Fever, Serpico, Joe), August 23
- Lane Kirkland, AFL-CIO president, August 14
- John F. Kennedy, Jr., July 17
- Pete Conrad , Apollo 12 astronaut, in a motorcycle accident, July 8
- Mario Puzo, July 2
- Sylvia Sidney
- DeForest Kelley, Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy, June 11
- Mel Torme, June 5
- George Danas, advocate for the right to keep and bear arms
- Phil Madsen
, software project manager - Shel Silverstein
- Rory Calhoun
- Henrietta Mazen, Mathematics Department Chair, Bronx High School of Science
- Al Hirt, April 27
- Señor Wences
- Yehudi Menuhin
- Joe Dimaggio, March 8
- Stanley Kubrick, March 7
- Richard Kiley, the Man of La Mancha
- Justice Harry Blackmun, March 4
- Dusty Springfield
- GySgt Carlos Hathcock, USMC
- Gene Siskel, February 20
- John Ehrlichman, February 14
- King Hussein, February 7
- Iron Eyes Cody, born Espera DeCorti, cried in PSA, January 4
1998 - Norman Fell (Mr. Roper)
- Flip Wilson
- Esther Rolle
- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)
- Cleveland Amory, October 15
- Roddy McDowall
- Gene Autry, October 2
- Florence Griffith Joyner (FloJo), September 21
- Daisy Anderson, widow of slave who fought for Union in Civil War, Sept 19, 1998 see also Gertrude Janeway and Alberta Martin
- George Wallace, September 13
- Akira Kurosawa
- E.G. Marshall
- Persis Khambatta, the bald woman from Star Trek: TMP
- Shari Lewis
- "Buffalo Bob" Smith
- Jerome Robbins
- Alan Shepard
- Robert Young
- Bob McAllister of Wonderama
- Roy Rogers
- Maureen O'Sullivan
- Barry Goldwater
- Phil Hartman
- Francis Albert Sinatra, May 14
- Dominique Aury, wrote Story of O as Pauline Reage, April 26
- Eddie Rabbitt
- Bebe Rebozo
- Eldrige Cleaver
- Carlos Castaneda
- James Earl Ray
- Linda McCartney
- Wendy O. Williams
- Rob Pilatus of Milli Vanilli
- Pol Pot
- Tammy Wynette
- Bella Abzug
- Dr. Benjamin Spock, March 15
- Lloyd Bridges, March 10
- Henny Youngman, February 24
- Falco, Rock Me Amadeus, February 6, 1998
- Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys, February 6
- Jack Lord, January 21
- Sonny Bono, January 5, 1998
- Nathan E. Cook , last known US Spanish-American War veteran, September 10, 1992, at age 106, noted in obituary of Harry Richard Landis, penultimate US WWI veteran
For an irreverent look at celebrity obituaries, see Stiffs.Com, home of the Celebrity Dead Pool
Milton Berleand Sid Ceasar get NBC award, October 25, 1999- Sid Ceasar appeared in PBS documentary "Jews in America", broadcast January 2008
Ted Williams,Yogi Berra and all the other old baseball players who were honored at the World SeriesTed Williams hospitalized November, 2000. Received pacemaker.- Yogi Berra brings suit for unlicensed use of his name, in connection with Yogasm, in an ad for Sex and the City, February 2005
Bob Hope was honored November, 1999; hospitalized for GI bleeding June 1, 1999. Honored at Rose Parade, January 1, 2001. 100 years old, June 2003.Pope John Paul II is hanging on but in declining health- Hospitalized with respiratory complications following flu, February 2005
Victor Borge, 90, honored at Kennedy Center, December 1999The Queen Mum keeps going and going.- Suffered broken collarbone, November, 2000.
- Katherine Hepburn hospitalized July 2001
Steve Allen mentioned as substitute host for David Letterman, January 2000,- and
Johnny Carson must be getting on in years too. - Can Ed McMahon be far behind?
- and
Kurt Vonnegut hospitalized after a fire in his home, January 2000.- Jerry Lee Lewis hospitalized after a reaction to drugs used to treat an infection, February 2000.
- Julia Child receives honorary degree, May 2000.
- Loretta Young mentioned in tabloids (last days), July 2000
- Fay Wray ("King Kong")
Billy Wilder ("Seven Year Itch", "Sabrina", "Sunset Blvd", "Ninotchka")Jimmie Davis who was governor of Louisiana for a while back I think in the 1920's but is most famous for the song he wrote "You Are My Sunshine" (jdavis@peermusic.com) now 101Madame Chiang-Kai-Shek, 103, she recently held a show of her paintings)Leni Riefenstahl who directed "Triumph of the Will" for Adolph Hitler in 1934 and recently survived a plane crash in Northern Africa on some sort of adventure (relatively young at only 98.)
Buddy Ebsen-- hospitalized June, 2003 at age 95- Sir John Gielgud
Max Schmeling (the boxer)- Senator Mike Mansfield
Harold Stassen (perennial presidential candidate, well quadriennial)Abraham Beame (former Mayor of NYC)Katherine Hepburn (above)Eddie Albert- Carl Albert (Speaker of the House)
Archibald Cox (Watergate prosecutor.)- Eunice Kennedy Shriver hospitalized for infection following surgery, October 2000.
- Ed Koch hospitalized January 2001, on the heels of news of the recent deaths of his immediate predecessors as NYC mayor, Abe Beame and John Lindsey.
Former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, suffers stroke, May 2002- Johnny Pesky, very long-time associate of the Red Sox, often mentioned alongside Ted Williams
September 2004: No longer allowed in Red Sox dugout by MLB as an "unofficial" manager
Lost his wife of 60 years, Ruth, on July 8, 2005 President Ronald Reagan, suffering from Alzheimer's Disease- President Jimmy Carter was looking a little rough at the DNC, July 2004
- Studs Terkel receives Lovejoy award for journalism from Colby College on October 10, 2004. At age 92, he was unable to travel to the ceremony.
Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, turned 100 years old in 2004.- Chuck Berry, planning a tribute concert after the death of his collaborator Johnnie Johnson, said "At 78, I'm glad to be anywhere, anytime."
- W. Mark Felt, revealed he was Watergate source Deep Throat, May 31, 2005, at age 91
President Gerald Ford, 92, hospitalized for routine tests and released, December 2005- World War One veterans
, reported on death of J. Russell Coffey, December 20, 2007:- Frank Buckles , 106, of Charles Town, W.Va.
- Harry Richard Landis , 108, of Sun City Center, Fla.
- John Babcock , 107, of Spokane, Wash., served in the Canadian army and is the last known Canadian veteran of the war.
- Walter Cronkite turned 91 on November 4, 2007
- Jeanne Calment, oldest documented person ever, at the time of her death 122 years, 164 days, died in 1997
- Sarah Knauss, at the time of her death the world's oldest living person, December 30, 1999, at age 119, second-oldest person ever
- Maria do Carmo Jeronimo, at the time of her death at age 129, the oldest living person (undocumented), June 14, 2000 - Not listed by Supercentenarians
- Eva Morris, at the time of her death the world's oldest living person, six days short of 115, November 2, 2000
- Marie Clement or Bremont, at the time of her death at age 115, the world's oldest living person, June 6, 2001
- Oldest living man, age 112, in Brookline, MA, early August 2001 - Not listed by Supercentenarians
- Maude Farris-Luse, oldest living person at age 115, mid-March 2002
- Veronica Wojiechowski Kaczmarek, one of the world's oldest people at age 114, March 26, 2002
- Oldest living American, April 23 or so 2003
- Oldest living American woman, age 113, Oct 11 or so 2003
- Supercentenarians lists Elena Slough, born July 4, 1889, died October 5, 2003, age 114
- Oldest living man, undocumented, Cambodia, Age 122, Oct 20 or so 2003 - Not listed by Supercentenarians
- Coates, oldest male American, Feb 28, 2004 - Not listed by Supercentenarians
- Ramona Trinidad Iglesia Jordan, born August 31, 1889, died May 29, 2004
- Fred Hale, Sr., at the time of his death the world's oldest documented man, born December 1, 1890, died November 19, 2004
- Walter Breuning, Montana, oldest American man, November 19, 2004 to ____
- Hermann Dornemann, of Germany, born May 27, 1893, oldest man November 19, 2004, died Mar. 2, 2005
- Bettie Wilson of Mississippi, born September 13, 1890, oldest American December 1, 2004 (until Elizabeth Bolden was certified as older in April 2005), died February 13, 2006
- Hendrikje Van Andel-Schipper, at the time of her death at age 115 years, 62 days, the oldest living person in the world, born June 29, 1890, died August 30, 2005
- Maria Esther de Capovilla, Ecuador, born September 14, 1889, died August 27, 2006
- Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bolden, born August 15, 1890, lost title to Maria Copvilla from December 12, 2005 to August 27, 2006, died November 11, 2006.
- Julie Winnifred Bertrand, oldest woman, died January 18, 2007
- Emiliano Mercado Del Toro, Puerto Rico, born 1891, oldest man since March 2, 2005, oldest person November 11, 2006 to January 24, 2007
- Tomoji Tanabe of Japan, born September 18, 1895, is the world's oldest man, January 24, 2007 to _____
- Certified by Guiness June 18, 2007
- Emma Faust Tillman, East Hartford, CT, born November 22, 1892, oldest woman since January 18, 2007, oldest person January 24 to 28, 2007
- Yone Minagawa, Japan, world's oldest person, January 28, 2007 to August 13, 2007
- Edna Parker, Indiana, born April 20, 1893, oldest American, January 28, 2007 to ____, world's oldest person, August 13, 2007 to ______
"Famous" here means celebrities, people whose name I would have recognized before their obituary, at least ex officio. Special attention is given to those people I'd have assumed to be long dead. Others whom, based on press coverage, I should have recognized are also included. This list tends to be Boston-centric (as should be the rest of the Universe); many of those listed are local celebrities.
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