 Lou Rawls January 6 |
 Shelley Winters January 14 |
 Coretta Scott King January 30 |
 Betty Friedan February 4 |
 Curt Gowdy February 20 |
 Don Knotts February 24 |
 Dennis Weaver February 24 |
 Lew Anderson (Clarabell) May 14 |
 Aaron Spelling June 23 |
 Patsy Ramsey June 24 |
 Moose (Frazier’s Eddie) late June |
 Benjamin Hendrickson July 1 |
 June Allyson July 8 |
 Red Buttons July 13 |
 Mike Douglas August 11 |
 Glenn Ford August 30 |
 Steve Irwin September 4 |
 Jane Wyatt October 20 |
 Ed Bradley November 9 |
 Jack Palance November 10 |
 President Gerald R. Ford December 26 |
January 6 – Lou Rawls, soul singer (“Lady Love”) age 72
January 14 – Shelley Winters, two time Oscar winning actor (“The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Patch of Blue”) age 85
January 19 – Wilson Pickett, soul singer (“In the MIdnight Hour” and “Mustang Sally”) age 64
January 19 – Anthony Franciosa, actor (“The Long Hot Summer” and “The Name of the Game”) age 77
January 24 – Chris Penn, actor (“Reservoir Dogs” and “Starsky & Hutch”) brother of Sean Penn, age 40
January 30 – Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King and Civil Rights matriarch, age 78
February 3 – Al Lewis, actor (Grandpa on “The Munsters” and Officer Leo Schnauzer on “Car 54, Where Are You?”) age 82
February 4 – Betty Friedan, author (“The Feminine Mystique”) and early leader of the feminist movement, age 85
February 12 – Peter Benchley, author (“Jaws”) age 65
February 13 – Andreas Katsulas, actor (GKar on “Babylon 5”) age 59
February 18 – William Cowsill, singer (The Cowsills, band that inspired the TV series “The Partridge Family” ) age 58
February 18 – Richard Bright, actor (Al Neri in ” The Godfather”) age 68
February 20 – Curt Gowdy, sportscaster (“American Sportsman”) age 86
February 24 – Don Knotts, actor (Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show” and Ralph Furley on “Three’s Company” ) age 81
February 24 – Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester Goode on“Gunsmoke” and Sam McCloud on “McCloud”) age 81
February 25 – Darren McGavin, actor (Carl Kolchak on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker” ) age 83
March 6 – Kirby Puckett,Baseball Hall of Famer who played for Minnesota Twins, age 44
March 6 – Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, age 44
March 11 – Slobodan Milosevic. tyrant (“Butcher of the Balkans”) age 64
March 13 – Maureen Stapleton, actress (“Reds” and “Interiors”) age 80
March 26 – Buck Owens, singer, host (“Hee Haw”) age 76
March 25 – Richard Fleischer, director (“Tora, Tora, Tora” and “Soylent Green”) age 89
March 26 – Paul Dana, IRL race car driver – Rahal Letterman Racing Team, age 30
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan, age 88
April 5 – Gene Pitney, singer/songwriter (“Town Without Pity” and “Liberty Valance”) age 65
April 17 – Scott Brazil, producer/director (“The Shield” and “Hill Street Blues”) age 50
May 2 – Louis Rukeyser, journalist (“Wall $treet Week With Louis Rukeyser”) age 73
May 3 – Earl Woods, father of golfer Tiger Woods, age 74
May 11 – Floyd Patterson, Heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic Gold medalist, age 71
May 14 – Lew Anderson, actor and musician (Clarabell on “Howdy Doody Show”) age 84
May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, Secretary of the Treasury (under Clinton) and U.S. Senator from Texas 1971-1993, age 85
May 27 – Paul Gleason, actor (Principal Richard Vernon in “Breakfast Club”) age 67
May 30 – Robert Sterling, actor (ghost George Kerby in “Topper”) age 88
June 2 – Vince Welnick, keyboard player for the Grateful Dead, age 51
June 6 – Billy Preston, keyboardist (“Outta Space” and “Nothing From Nothing”) age 59
June 20 – Claydes Charles Smith, musician (co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool & the Gang) age 57
June 23 – Aaron Spelling, producer (“Mod Squad,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Charlie’s Angels,” “The Love Boat,” “Dynasty,” and “Beverly Hills 90210”) age 83
June 24 – Patsy Ramsey, mother of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, 49
June ? – Moose, actor (played Eddie on “Frazier”) age 16 ½
July 1 – Benjamin Hendrickson, actor (Hal Munson on “As the World Turns”) age 55
July 2 – Jan Murray, comic host (“Treasure Hunt”) age 89
July 5 – Ken Lay, fomer CEO of Enron, who was convicted of conspiracy and fraud, age 64
July 7 – Syd Barrett, musician (founder of Pink Floyd) age 60
July 8 – June Allyson, actress (“The Glenn Miller Story” and “Strategic Air Command”) age 88
Juky 11 – Barnard Hughes, actor (Grandpa in “Lost Boys”) age, 90
July 13 – Red Buttons, actor (“Sayonara” and Poseidon Adventure”) age 87
July 16 – Lt. Governor Win Rockefeller, Arkansas politician, billionaire great-grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller, age 57
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, writer (Mike Hammer novels) age 88
July 19 – Jack Warden, actor (“Crazy Like a Fox” and “Heaven Can Wait”) age 85
August 11 – Mike Douglas, singer and talk show host (“The Mike Douglas Show:), age 81
August 14 – Bruno Kirby, actor (Ed Funillo in “City Slickers”) age 57
August 30 – Glenn Ford, actor ( “The Blackboard Jungle,” “Put the Blame on Mame”) age 90
September 1 – Nellie Connally, wife of former Gov. John Connally of Texas (1917-1993) and the last surviving occupant of President Kennedy’s limousine when he was assassinated, age 87
September 2 – Bob Mathias, Olympic decathlete and U.S. Congressman (1967-1975), age 75
September 4 – Steve Irwin, Enviromentalist known as the “Croc Hunter,” age 44
September 13 – Ann Richards, former Governor of Texas (1991 to 1995), age 73
September 14 – Michael Hargitay,bobybuilder ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield and father of “Law & Order: SVU” star Mariska Hargitay, age 80
September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister of John F. Kennedy and former wife of Peter Lawford, age 82
September 22 – Edward Albert Jr., actor ( Don Baker in “Butterflies Are Free”) age 55
September 26 – Byron Nelson, Golfing great, age 94
October 11 – Corey Lidle, pitcher of the New York Yankees, age 34
October 14 – Freddy Fender, country singer (“Before the Next Teardrop Falls”) age 69
October 20 – Phyllis Kirk, actress (Nora Charles on “The Thin Man”) age 77
October 20 – Jane Wyatt, actress (Margaret Anderson on “Father Knows Best”) age 96
October 28 – Red Auerbach, legendary winning coach of the Boston Celtics, age 89
November 9 – Ed Bradley, journalist, longtime corresponent for “60 Minutes,” age 65
November 10- Jack Palance, actor (Curly Washburn in “City Slickers”) age 87
November 17 – Bo Schembechler, legendary football coach at University of Michigan, age 77
November 21 – Robert Altman, director (“M.A.S.H.”) age 81
December 12 – Peter Boyle, actor (Frank Barone on “Everybody Loves Raymond”) age 71
December 25 – James Brown, Godfather of Soul, “I Got You (I Feel Good)” age 73
December 26 – President Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States 1974-1977, age 93
December 29 – Saddam Hussein,Butcher of Bagdad, age 69
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