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Last updated: 2008 June 28.

1983 January 2 Bernard George Stevens, composer, dies at age 66. [1] Dick Emery, British comedian/actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love), dies at age 65 (born 1915). [1] [115] Harriet Parsons, actress/producer (Susan Slept Here), dies at age 76 of cancer. [1] January 7 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at age 79. [1] January 8 Gale Page, actress (Four Daughters, Knute Rockney), dies of cancer at age 72. [1] Lois Wilson, actress (Alice - Aldrich Family), dies at age 88. [1] January 10 Death of Roy DeMeo, Mafia hitman (born 1942). [115] January 11 Death of Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (born 1894). [115] Nikolaj V Podgorny, president USSR, dies at age 79. [1] January 13 Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at age 71. [1] John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at age 69. [1] Arthur Space, actor (Doc Weaver - Lassie), dies of cancer at age 74. [1] D Mack Reynolds, US writer (Amazon Planet, Once Departed), dies. [1] January 15 Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at age 75. [1] Death of Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (born 1902). [115] Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach, Florida, at age 81. [1] [5] January 22 Fred Bakewell, cricketer (dashing England bat of 1930s, 6 Tests), dies. [1] January 23 Death of Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (born 1908). [115] January 24 George Cukor, American film director, dies of stroke and heart attack at age 83 (born 1899). [1] [115] January 26 Death of Paul "Bear" Bryant, American college football coach, at age 69 in Alabama (born 1913). [1] [115] January 27 Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose), dies of cancer at age 42. [1] Death of Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (born 1899). [115] Louis De Funes, French actor/writer (Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacobs), dies from a heart attack at age 68 (born 1899). [1] [115] January 28 Billy Fury, British Rock 'n' Roll artist ("That'll Be the Day"), dies at age 42 of heart failure (born 1940). [1] [115] Death of Frank Forde, fifteenth Prime Minister of Australia (born 1890). [115] January 30 [Dallas] Mack/McCord Reynolds, sci-fi author (Earth War), dies at age 65. [1] Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia. [1] February 1 Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies. [1] February 2 Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide. [1] Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies. [1] Bryan Valentine, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 454 runs), dies. [1] February 4 Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at age 89. [1] Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars), dies at age 68. [1] Karen Carpenter, American singer/drummer (The Carpenters), dies of anorexia at age 32 (born 1950). [1] [115] February 5 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (Social Democrat), dies at age 67. [1] February 10 Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro), dies at age 80. [1] February 12 Death of Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (born 1887). [115] Eubie Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at age 100. [1] February 13 Marian Nixon, actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at age 78. [1] February 14 Death of Lina Radke, German athlete (born 1903). [115] February 19 Alice White, actress (Employees' Entrance), dies of a stroke at age 78. [1] February 20 James G Richardson (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies at age 37 in ski accident. [1] Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at age 33. [1] February 22 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935), dies at age 70. [1] Death of Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (born 1889). [115] Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at age 75. [1] February 23 Adrian Boult, conductor, dies. [1] Death of Herbert Norman Howells, English composer, at age 90 (born 1892). [115] (February 24 [1]) February 25 John Cowles Sr, US publisher, dies at age 84. [1] Tennessee Williams, US writer (Streetcar Named Desire), chokes to death on a bottle cap at age 71 (born 1911). [1] [115] February 27 Death of Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (born 1908). [115] February 28 Death of Winifred Atwell, British pianist (born 1914). [115] March 3 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian/British writer (Dialogue With Death), dies at age 77 (born 1905). [1] [115] March 4 Hergé [Georges Rémi], Belgian cartoonist (Rin-Tin-Tin), dies at age 75 (born 1907). [1] [115] March 6 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game), dies at age 55. [1] March 7 Igor Markevich, composer, dies at age 70. [1] Robert Bray, actor (Corey - Lassie, Simon - Stagecoach West), dies at age 65. [1] March 8 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at age 80 (born 1902). [1] [115] March 9 Death of Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905). [115] Faye Emerson, actress (I've Got a Secret), dies of cancer at age 65. [1] March 12 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at age 85. [1] March 13 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at age 58. [1] Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at age 86. [1] March 14 Maurice Ronet, actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx), dies at age 55. [1] March 15 José Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer, dies at age 80. [1] Death of Rebecca West, English-born writer (born 1892). [115] March 16 Death of Freda Dudley Ward, former royal mistress (born 1894). [115] Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), dies at age 79. [1] March 17 Death of Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903). [115] March 18 Umberto of Piemonte, King Umberto II of Italy (1946), dies. [1] March 23 Dr Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient, dies after 112 days at age 62. [1] March 25 Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at age 72. [1] March 26 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at age 75. [1] March 27 Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at age 76. [1] Death of Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer, George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (born 1898). [115] James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at age 75. [1] March 28 Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at age 71. [1] Martinus A Jansen, bishop of Rotterdam (1956-70), dies at age 77. [1] March 29 Richard O'Brien, actor (Rocky Horror Show), dies of cancer at age 65. [1] March 30 Pál Kadosa, Hungarian composer/pianist, dies at age 79. [1] March 31 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at age 70. [1] April 4 Gloria Swanson, American actress (Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at age 84 (born 1897). [1] [115] Jacqueline Logan, silent film leading lady, dies at age 78. [1] April 6 Ana Maria Salvador, guerilla leader, murdered. [1] April 7 Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at age 82. [1] April 10 Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at age 78. [1] Issam Sartawi, Palestinian Liberation Organization ambassador to Portugal, is murdered. [1] April 11 Dolores Del Rio, actress (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at age 78. [1] April 14 Pete Farndon, rock bassist (The Pretenders), dies. [1] Willem F Bon, Dutch composer, dies at age 42. [1] Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Olympics-bronze-1952), dies at age 64. [1] April 15 Rodolfo Hoyos, actor (Luis-Viva Valdez), dies at age 68. [1] Gyula Illyes, Hungarian writer/poet (Az Ismertlen Illyes), dies at age 80. [1] April 17 Mark W Clark, US General (WWII), dies at age 87. [1] Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at age 78. [1] Felix Pappalardi, rocker (Cream, Mountain), dies. [1] April 18 Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies. [1] April 19 Jerzy Andrzejewski, writer (Ashes and Diamonds), dies at age 73. [1] Lorene Scott, actress (Faraway Hill), dies at age 74. [1] April 20 Jerzy Andrezjewski, writer, dies. [1] April 21 Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at age 80. [1] April 22 Earl "Fatha" Hines, American jazz pianist/conductor, dies (born 1903). [1] [115] April 23 Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at age 78. [1] Buster Crabbe, 400 metre US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor, dies from a heart attack in Scottsdale, Arizona at age 76. [1] April 26 Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at age 72. [1] Bronislaw Kaper, composer, dies at age 81. [1] April 28 Ron James, cricketer (New South Wales's Sheffield Shield captain 1949-50), dies. [1] April 30 Jerry Hatsuo, Fujikawa actor (Uncle Matsu - Mr T and Tina), dies at age 71. [1] Death of McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield, blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), dies at age 68 (born 1915). [1] [115] George Balanchine, choreographer, dies at age 78 (born 1904). [1] [115] May 1 V N Swamy, Indian cricket pace bowler (without distinction), dies. [1] May 2 Death of Norm Van Brocklin, former National Football League quarterback (born 1926). [115] Marius F Duintjer, architect, dies. [1] May 3 Vaughn Taylor, actor (Jailhouse Rock), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at age 72. [1] May 4 Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at age 72. [1] May 5 John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at age 80. [1] May 7 Peter Edel, writer, dies. [1] May 8 Death of John Fante, American writer (born 1909). [115] May 10 John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at age 92. [1] May 11 Zenna [Chlarson] Henderson, author (Anything Box), dies at age 65. [1] May 14 Miguel Aleman Valdes, attorney/President of México (1946-52), dies at age 80. [1] Death of Roger J. Traynor, American judge (born 1900). [115] May 16 Carel Brons, composer, dies at age 52. [1] May 18 Death of Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (born 1898). [115] May 19 Death of Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (born 1902). [1] [115] May 21 Finn Einar Mortensen, composer, dies at age 61. [1] Death of Kenneth Clark, British art historian (born 1903). [115] May 23 Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel Prize 1974), dies at age 84 (born 1899). [1] [115] May 25 Sydney Box, academy award producer, dies at age 76. [1] May 27 Arnoldus Christian Vlok van Wyk, composer, dies at age 67. [1] May 30 Alfred M Gruenther, US General/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies at age 84. [1] May 31 Death of Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (born 1895). [115] June 2 Death of Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (born 1949). [115] June 8 Death of MiÜko Kranjec, Slovenian writer (born 1908). [115] June 10 Death of Larry Hooper, American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show) (born 1917). [115] June 12 Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress (Academy Award-winner), dies at age 80. [1] [115] June 18 Death of Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (born 1893). [115] June 25 Death of Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (born 1916). [115] June 26 Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at age 82. [1] June 27 Maxie Anderson and Don Ida, balloonists, die during a race. [1] June 30 Bo Gentry, songwriter/producer, dies. [1] Mary Livingstone, actress (Jack Benny Show), dies at age 75. [1] July 1 R Buckminster Fuller, American inventor/philosopher/architect, dies in Los Angeles, California at age 87 (born 1895). [1] [115] July 4 Death of John Bodkin Adams, alleged English murderer (born 1899). [115] July 5 Harry James, swing-era bandleader/trumpet player, dies in Las Vegas, Nevada. [1] July 7 Death of Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (born 1952). [115] July 11 Death of Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (born 1915). [115] July 12 Death of Chris Wood, British rock musician (born 1944). [115] July 15 Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie - Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at age 78. [1] July 20 Death of Frank Reynolds, American journalist (born 1923). [115] Frank Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), dies at age 59. [1] July 23 Death of Georges Auric, French composer (born 1899). [115] July 29 David Niven, English actor (Rugues), dies in Switzerland at age 73 (born 1910). [1] [115] Luis Buñuel, movie director, dies at age 83 of cirrhosis of liver. [1] Raymond Massey, Canadian actor, dies of pneumonia in Beverly Hills, California at age 86 (born 1896). [1] [115] July 30 Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at age 86 of Parkinson's disease. [1] Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actresses, dies at age 95. [1] August 1 Peter Arne, actor, is bludgeoned to death in London, England at age 62. [1] August 2 Death of James Jamerson, American Motown Bassist (born 1938). [115] August 3 Carolyn Jones, American actress (Morticia - Addams Family), dies at age 54 of cancer (born 1930). [1] [115] August 5 Judy Canova, singer/comedienne/actress, dies at age 66 of cancer. [1] August 6 Death of Klaus Nomi, German Pop Singer, Artist, Performance art (born 1944). [115] August 15 Anthony Costello, actor, dies at age 42. [1] August 16 Death of Earl Averill, baseball player (born 1902). [115] August 17 Ira Gershwin, American lyricist, dies in Beverly Hills, California, at age 86 (born 1896). [1] [5] [115] August 21 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile. [115] August 24 Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at age 64. [1] August 26 Mike Kellin, actor (Honestly Celeste), dies at age 61 of cancer. [1] August 28 Jan Clayton, actress (Ellen Miller - Lassie), dies at age 66. [1] August 29 Simon Oakland, actor (Toma, Kolchak, Baa Baa Black Sheep), dies at age 61. [1] September 1 Death of Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (born 1935). [115] Henry "Scoop" Jackson (Senator-Democrat-Washington) dies at age 71. [1] September 10 Death of Dai Rees, British golfer (born 1913). [115] Death of Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905). [115] Death of Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (born 1941). [115] September 15 LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at age 88. [1] Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at age 49. [1] September 25 Death of King Léopold III of Belgium (born 1901). [115] September 26 Death of Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (born 1907). [115] September 30 Freddy Martin, orchestra leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at age 76. [1] William D Elliot, actor (Bernie Loves Bridget, Adam 12), dies at age 49. [1] October 3 John K.M. McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at age 69. [1] October 6 Death of Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop, at age 62 (born 1921). [1] [115] October 8 Joan Hackett, American actress, dies of cancer at age 49 (born 1934). [1] [115] October 9 The Rangoon, Burma, bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. [1] [115] October 10 Ralph Richardson, actor, dies at age 80. [1] October 14 Paul Fix, actor (Rifleman), dies at age 82 of kidney failure. [1] US Marine peacekeeper Sargeant Allen Soifert killed by sniper in Beirut, Lebanon. [1] October 15 Pat O'Brien, actor, dies of heart attack at age 83. [1] October 16 George Liberace, violinist (Liberace Show), dies at age 72. [1] October 18 Death of Willie Jones, baseball player (born 1925). [115] October 19 Maurice Bishop, the Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are executed in a military coup. [1] [115] October 23 Jessica Savitch, of Margate, New Jersey, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies in car accident drowning at age 36 (born 1947). [1] [115] Tamara Shayne, actress, dies at age 80 of a heart attack. [1] October 28 Death of Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (born 1892). [115] October 31 Death of George S. Halas, American football player and coach at age 88 (born 1895). [1] [115] November 3 Death of Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (born 1901). [115] Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at age 82. [1] November 7 Death of Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (born 1892). [115] November 13 "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw), dies at age 56. [1] November 14 Death of Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (born 1901). [115] November 15 Death of John Le Mesurier, British actor (born 1912). [115] John LeMesurier, actor, dies at age 71. [1] November 19 Peter Coffield of Illinois, actor (Kevin - W.E.B.), dies at age 37. [1] November 20 Marcel Dalio, actor (Casablanca), dies at age 83. [1] Richard Loo, actor, dies of cardio-pulmonary arrest. [1] November 22 Michael Conrad, actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of cancer at age 58. [1] November 28 Christopher George, actor, dies at age 54 of a heart attack. [1] December 1 Mirsky, mathematician, dies. [1] December 2 Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (South African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies. [1] Fifi D'Orsay "French Bombshell", Canadian actress (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at age 79 (born 1904). [1] [115] December 3 Death of Troy Bergeron, Arena Football League player. [115] December 4 Estelle Omens, actress (Effect of Gamma Rays), dies at age 55. [1] December 5 Robert Aldrich, director/producer (Last Sunset), dies at age 65. [1] December 6 Death of Lucienne Boyer, French singer (born 1903). [115] December 7 Edgar Graham, member of Northern Ireland Assembly, shot dead by Irish Republican Army. [1] December 8 Slim Pickins, American western actor (Blazing Saddles), dies after brain surgery at age 64 (born 1919). [1] [115] December 9 David Rounds, actor (Terence - Beacon Hill), dies at age 53. [1] December 10 Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers), dies at age 84. [1] Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents), dies at age 74. [1] December 11 Death of Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (born 1897). [115] Szymon Laks, composer, dies at age 82. [1] December 13 Leora Dana, actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit, Sylvie Kosloff - Another World), dies at age 60. [1] Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at age 78. [1] December 16 Kusan Sunim, found Milae Sa temple/Bulsung Sa Zen in Korea, dies at age 74. [1] December 19 Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Gillespie - Dr Kildaire), dies at age 87. [1] December 21 Death of Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (born 1919). [115] Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at age 73. [1] December 23 Death of Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (born 1910). [115] December 25 Joan Miró, Spanish surrealist painter, dies at his home in Majorca at age 90 (born 1893). [1] [115] December 27 Walter Scott, rocker, dies. [1] December 28 Dennis Wilson, American drummer/singer (The Beach Boys), drowns at age 39 (born 1944). [1] [115] William Demarest, actor ("Uncle Charlie" on My Three Sons), dies in Palm Springs at age 92. [1] December 31 Bill Hunt, cricketer (Test for Australia, out 0, took 0-25 and 0-14), dies. [1] Frank Link, actor (Burns and Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at age 46. [1]