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Last updated: 2008 August 9.

1982 July 4 Death of Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS (born 1945). [116] July 6 Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at age 72. [1] July 7 Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler - Hello Larry), dies at age 63. [1] July 8 Isa Miranda, actress, dies at age 77 of infected bone fracture. [1] July 12 Kenneth More, actor, dies of Parkinson's disease at age 67. [1] July 13 John Alexander, actor, dies at age 85. [1] July 15 Body of Wendy Caulfield, first Green River victim, found near Seattle, Washington. [1] July 16 Patrick Dewaere, actor, dies at age 35 of self-inflicted gunshot wound. [1] July 19 Death of John Harvey, stage and film actor (born 1911). [116] July 21 Dave Garroway, TV host (Today Show), dies at age 69. [1] July 23 Vic Morrow killed during filming of The Twilight Zone movie at age 53 (born 1929). [1] [116] July 26 Betty Walker, actress (Steve Lawrence Show), dies at age 54. [1] July 27 Dan Seymour, actor (We the People, Sing it Again), dies at age 67. [1] July 28 Death of Keith Green, American gospel singer, songwriter, and pianist (born 1953). [116] July 29 Death of Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor (born 1889). [116] Harold Sakata, actor (Kenji - Sarge), dies at age 62. [1] August 2 Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Seperate Tables), dies at age 93. [1] August 11 Tom Drake, actor, dies of lung cancer at age 63. [1] August 12 Henry Fonda, American actor (On Golden Pond), dies at age 77 from heart disease (born 1905). [1] [116] August 13 Charles Walters, director, dies at age 68. [1] Joe E Ross, comedian (Toody - Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies at age 77. [1] August 14 Patrick Magee, Irish actor, dies at age 58. [1] August 15 Death of Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1903). [116] August 17 Barney Phillips, actor (Dragnet, Felony Squad), dies at age 68. [1] August 18 Death of Vladek Spiegelman, father of cartoonist Art Spiegelman and main character/narrator of Maus (a graphic novel of his life during the Holocaust) (born 1906). [116] Beverly Bayne, actress, dies at age 87. [1] August 20 Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress, dies in Vienna at age 53 of bone cancer. [1] August 21 Death of King Sobhuza II of Swaziland, at the time the longest reigning living monarch (born 1899). [116] Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed in Manila. [1] August 23 Death of Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1913). [116] August 29 Ingrid Bergman, Academy Award winning actress, dies on 67th birthday (born 1915). [1] [116] September 2 Jay Novello, actor, dies of cancer at age 78. [1] Tom Baker, American actor, dies of a drug overdose at age 42 (born 1940). [1] [116] September 3 Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a mafia ambush. [116] Michael Thoma, actor (Eight is Enough, Fame), dies at age 55. [1] September 5 Death of Douglas Bader, Inspirational leader of the Battle of Britain (born 1910). [116] September 11 Death of Wilfredo Lam, Cuban artist (born 1902). [116] September 13 Philip Ober, actor (General Stone - I Dream of Jeannie), dies at age 80. [1] September 14 Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut. [1] [116] Grace Patricia Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco, dies at age 52 in a car crash (born 1929). [1] [5] [116] September 15 Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed by Iran. [1] September 16 Rolfe Sedan, actor, dies at age 86. [1] September 23 Death of Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western singer and actor (born 1914). [116] Jimmy Wakely, country western singer, dies of heart failure at age 68. [1] September 24 Sarah Churchill, actress, dies at age 67. [1] September 28 Larry Breeding (Who's Watching the Kids?), dies on 36th birthday. [1] Mabel Albertson, American actress, dies of Alzheimer's disease at age 81 (born 1901). [1] [116] October 4 Death of Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (born 1932). [116] October 8 Death of Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (born 1889). [116] Fernando Lamas, actor/director, dies at age 67 of cancer. [1] October 9 Death of Anna Freud in London, England (born in Vienna, Austria), youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, elementary school teacher, founder of child psychoanalysis. [37] October 10 Death of Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (born 1908). [116] October 18 Death of Dwain Esper, director (born 1892). [116] Bess Truman, former first lady, dies in Independence, Missouri at age 97 (born 1885). [1] [116] October 22 Death of Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher (born 1905). [116] October 24 James Philbrook, actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at age 58. [1] November 1 James Broderick, actor (Doug - Family), dies of cancer at age 55. [1] King Vidor, director, dies at age 88 of a heart ailment. [1] November 5 Jacques Tati, actor/director, dies of pulmonary embolism. [1] November 10 Leonid I Brezhnev, Soviet first secretary, dies of a heart attack at age 75 (born 1906). [1] [116] November 15 Death of Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator (born 1895). [116] November 17 Bill Baldwin, announcer (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 69. [1] Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer, is declared legally dead. [1] Ruth Donnelly, comedienne, dies at age 86 in New York City. [1] November 18 Donald Dillaway, actor, dies at age 78. [1] November 21 Lee Patrick, actress (Henrietta - Topper, Maltese Falcon), dies at age 75. [1] November 22 Death of Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator (born 1909). [116] Burton Turkus, lawyer/author/TV host (Mr Arsenic), dies at age 80. [1] November 23 Reverend Grady Nutt, actor (Hee Haw), dies at age 47. [1] November 26 Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at age 73. [1] Robert Coote, actor (Timmy - Rogues, Theodore - Nero Wolfe), dies of a heart attack at age 73. [1] November 29 Death of Percy Williams, Canadian athlete (born 1908). [116] December 1 Dorothy James, composer, dies on 81st birthday. [1] December 2 David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at age 41. [1] Marty Feldman, comedic actor (Young Frankenstein), dies at age 49 of a heart attack in México. [1] December 7 Death of Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street (born 1908). [116] Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer, becomes first US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. [1] [116] December 8 Death of Marty Robbins, American singer (born 1925). [116] André Kamperveen, Suriname minister, is murdered. [1] Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star (Bordeaux), dies. [1] Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, is murdered. [1] Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, is murdered. [1] Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer holds the Washington Monument hostage; after 10 hours, police kill him; he had no explosives. [1] Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, is murdered. [1] Gerald Leckie, Suriname scholar, is murdered. [1] Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, is murdered. [1] John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, is murdered. [1] Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, is murdered. [1] Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, is murdered. [1] Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, is murdered. [1] Marty Robbins, country singer, dies at age 57. [1] Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, is murdered. [1] December 9 Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at age 53. [1] Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor, dies in Texas at age 77. [1] Paul Godwin [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at age 80. [1] Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at age 55. [1] Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at age 87. [1] December 10 Roy Webb, composer, dies at age 94. [1] Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at age 83. [1] December 13 Jack Badcock, cricketer (7 Tests, 1 century but inconsistent), dies. [1] December 16 Death of Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, at age 54 (born 1928). [1] [116] December 17 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at age 58. [1] Philipp Jarnach, composer, dies at age 90. [1] December 18 Raymond Emery, cricketer (two Tests New Zealand vs West Indies 1952, 46 runs, two wickets), dies. [1] Tibor de Machula, Hungary/Netherlands cellist, dies at age 70. [1] December 19 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at age 71. [1] Lawrence Collingwood, composer, dies at age 95. [1] December 20 Artur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva, Switzerland at age 95. [1] [116] December 23 Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday - Dragnet), dies of a heart attack at age 62. [1] Norman Dinnerstein, composer, dies at age 45. [1] December 24 Louis Aragon, French poet (Pour un Réalisme Socialiste), dies at age 85 (born 1897). [1] [116] December 27 John Leonard Swigert Jr, American astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at age 51 (born 1931). [1] [116] December 28 Frederick Douglass Hall, composer, dies at age 84. [1] December 29 Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at age 79. [1]