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Old 14th January 2009, 04:27 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Nancy Bird-Walton, the first woman in Australia to operate a commercial aircraft, died yesterday. She was 93.

Walton was named a Living National Treasure by the National Trust of Australia in 1997.
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'Prisoner' actor Patrick McGoohan dies in LA

Patrick McGoohan, an Emmy-winning actor who created and starred in the cult classic television show "The Prisoner," has died. He was 80.

McGoohan died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a short illness, his son-in-law, film producer Cleve Landsberg, said Wednesday.

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Old 15th January 2009, 09:29 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet William DeWitt Snodgrass died Tuesday of lung cancer. He was 83.
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Indian film director Tapan Sinha died today of bronchopneumonia. He was 84.
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Andrew Wyeth, the painter known for such works as Christina's World, died today. He was 91.
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British writer Sir John Mortimer, best known for his lawyer character Horace Rumpole, died today. He was 85.

John was also the father of actress Emily Mortimer.
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Writer Hortense Calisher died Tuesday. She was 97.

Calisher won four O. Henry prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award.
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Bob May, the actor inside The Robot costume on Lost In Space, died yesterday of congestive heart failure. He was 69.

May was the grandson of Chic Johnson. In addition to Lost In Space, he was a stuntman and appeared in numerous Jerry Lewis films. He also appeared on other TV shows including The Time Tunnel, McHale's Navy, and The Red Skelton Show.
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Don Galloway, best known for playing Sergeant Ed Brown on Ironside, died January 8 after a stroke. He was 71.

Galloway was also in The Big Chill and most recently appeared in General Hospital.
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British artist Tony Hart, who was a regular on Saturday Special and was a presenter on British television for 50 years, died Sunday. He was 83.
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Singer/actress Susanna Foster died last Saturday of heart failure. She was 84.

Foster started out as a child star on radio. She played Christine in the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera and then enjoyed a clutch of film successes throughout the 1940s.
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Tenor sax soloist David "Fathead" Newman died Thursday of pancreatic cancer. He was 75.

In addition to a successful solo career, Newman played with a wide range of jazz and soul lumaries, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Dr. John.
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Edmund de Rothschild, former chairman of N.M. Rothschild and Sons merchant bank and a noted horticulturist, died last Saturday. He was 93.
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Kay Yow, the longtime women's basketball coach for North Carolina State University, died today of breast cancer. She was 66.

Yow coached the US women's basketball team for the 1988 Olympics, who won the gold medal, and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Brazillian model and Miss World finalist Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, died Jan 24th of complications from sepsis, despite multiple surgical procedures aimed at saving her.
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Pulitzer prize winning author John Updike has died from lung cancer. He was 76.

Updike wrote over 50 books in 60 years, including the Rabbit series and The Witches of Eastwick.
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