In Remembrance---2009 - Page 3

Dannyalcatraz · 28th January 2009, 06:29 AM

Charlie Cooper of electronic duo Telefon Tel Aviv dies at 31. No cause given as of yet.

Dannyalcatraz · 28th January 2009, 10:47 PM

Orange Park, Fla.

Police Lt. Mark Cornett says Lynyrd Skynyrd's 56-year-old keyboard player Billy Powell called 911 about 12:55 a.m. Wednesday saying he was having trouble breathing. Rescue crews performed CPR, but he was pronounced dead at 1:52 a.m.

GrayLinnorm · 28th January 2009, 11:42 PM

Kim Manners, a producer for The X-Files and Supernatural, died Sunday of lung cancer. He was 59.

GrayLinnorm · 29th January 2009, 02:05 AM

James Brady, a columnist for Parade and the New York Post, died January 26. He was 80.

GrayLinnorm · 30th January 2009, 04:30 PM

British singer-songwriter John Martyn died yesterday. He was 60.

Martyn's "May You Never" has been covered by many artists, including Eric Clapton. Solid Air has been considered one of the best British albums of the 1970s.

GrayLinnorm · 30th January 2009, 09:08 PM

Theater producer Roy Somlyo, who produced the Tony Awards telecast for 10 years as well as Night of 100 Stars (and won several Emmies for both), died yesterday of cancer. He was 83.

GrayLinnorm · 1st February 2009, 09:22 PM

British writer Sharat Sardana died January 27 of a streptococcal infection. He was 40.

Sardana created the show Goodness Gracious Me and won an international Emmy for The Kumars at No. 42.

GrayLinnorm · 3rd February 2009, 01:18 AM

Glenn Davies, who won gold medals at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics for the 400-meter hurdle, died last Wednesday. He was 74.

GrayLinnorm · 3rd February 2009, 01:23 AM

Ingemar Johansson, a heavyweight boxing champion of the world best known for his fights with Floyd Patterson, died January 30. He was 76.

GrayLinnorm · 4th February 2009, 09:21 PM

Millard Fuller, the founder of Habitat for Humanity, died yesterday. He was 74.

GrayLinnorm · 5th February 2009, 02:51 PM

Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage punk band The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart condition. He was 62.

GrayLinnorm · 5th February 2009, 03:48 PM

Hans Beck, creator of the Playmobil toys, died January 30. He was 79.

GrayLinnorm · 6th February 2009, 03:38 PM

Clint Ritchie, who played Clint Buchanan on One Life to Live, died last Saturday. He was 70.

Dannyalcatraz · 7th February 2009, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GrayLinnorm

Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage punk band The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart condition. He was 62.

Dang.

(hums "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns", reverently)

GrayLinnorm · 7th February 2009, 03:46 AM

Versatile actor James Whitmore died today of lung cancer. He was 87.

Whitmore won Emmies and Tonys and was nominated for an Academy Award. He was also the longtime spokesman for Miracle-Gro.

GrayLinnorm · 8th February 2009, 07:50 PM

Dewey Martin, a member of Buffalo Springfield, died January 31. He was 68.

Dannyalcatraz · 10th February 2009, 08:01 AM

Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, considered the "heartbeat" of Cuba's legendary Buena Vista Social Club for his internationally acclaimed bass playing, died Monday of complications from prostate surgery, fellow musicians said. He was 76.

Lopez, a founding member of the band brought together in the 1990s by American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, died in a Havana hospital several days after surgery, said Manuel Galban, a Cuban musician who played with Lopez for decades.

Buena Vista Social Club bassist Lopez dead at 76 - Yahoo! News

Mark · 10th February 2009, 02:44 PM

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76

GrayLinnorm · 10th February 2009, 04:10 PM

Phil Carey, who played Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live, died last Friday (oddly, just a week after Clint Ritchie, who played his son) of lung cancer. He was 83.

GrayLinnorm · 10th February 2009, 04:14 PM

Playwright Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy and I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, died yesterday of pneumonia. He was 91.