Stacy Keach

Nell Carter

Al Hirschfeld

Peter Shaw

1 Astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia

Johnny PayCheck

Fred Rogers

Dr. Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, discoverer of SARS, of which he died

H.S.M. Coxeter, noted geometer and author of many books

Edgar F. Codd, computer pioneer

Edwin Starr, soul singer

Donald O'Connor, entertainer, actor

Robert Palmer, singer.

Johnny Cash, American country singer

Warren Zevon, singer and songwriter

Buddy Hackett, comic

Katharine Hepburn, actress

Leon Uris, author

Robert Stack, Hollywood actor

Bob Hope, comedian

Barry White, smooth soul singer

Herbie Mann, crossover jazz and bossa nova flutist

Gregory Peck, actor

Buddy Ebsen, American actor

Kamato Hongo, oldest person in world at 116

These are but a few of the people we have lost this last year. For more deaths :

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Recent-deaths







"Be the change you want to see in the world".

I only recognized less than 10 of your list. Not so famous then.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Soliloquies in England, 1922, "War Shrines"

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes

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spuriousmonkey.......... Because you don't recognise more than 10 people only means that you are much younger than those that can identify all of those that I have listed. This doesn't mean that those who you don't know aren't famous only that you don't know them.

Bob Monkhouse a very popular British comedian who died today

No mention of Gregory Hines on that list??

Hi:
You did not mention the street sweeper, the worker, the salesman and the... who died last year. They did not entertain you. They served you and me. May be they are too small to be noticed. cheers and a Happy New Year, quack - quack

Who is more important?

The artist who brings beauty to your life?

Or the person who put the wheel-bolts on your car?

Do you want to live in a mundane wasteland?

Or will you be smiling when your wheel falls off and you die?

Send not to know for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee.