In Remembrance---2009 - Page 4

GrayLinnorm · 10th February 2009, 04:22 PM

Jazz singer Blossom Dearie died last Saturday. She was 82.

GrayLinnorm · 12th February 2009, 12:26 AM

Carolyn George d'Amboise, a photographer and former ballet and Broadway dancer, died yesterday. She was 81.

GrayLinnorm · 12th February 2009, 01:56 AM

Molly Bee, who had a successful country music career in the 1950s when she was a kid (and was best known for singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus) died last Saturday from complications of a stroke. She was 69.

GrayLinnorm · 13th February 2009, 12:11 AM

Motocross racer Jeremy Lusk died Tuesday of injuries from a crash. He was 24.

Lusk won several gold medals in the X Games.

GrayLinnorm · 13th February 2009, 04:48 PM

Estelle Bennett, who, with her sister Ronnie, was a member of the Ronettes, has been found dead. She was 67.

GrayLinnorm · 13th February 2009, 09:37 PM

Irish playwright Hugh Leonard, best known for his Tony-award winning play Da, died yesterday. He was 82.

GrayLinnorm · 14th February 2009, 07:40 PM

John Higson Cover Jr., the inventor of the taser, died February 7 of pneumonia. He was 88.

GrayLinnorm · 17th February 2009, 04:24 PM

Sir Bernard Ashley, who co-founded Laura Ashley with his wife, died last Saturday. He was 82.

GrayLinnorm · 17th February 2009, 04:27 PM

Carl Venne, chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, died Sunday. He was 62.

GrayLinnorm · 17th February 2009, 04:30 PM

Salsa band leader Joe Cuba, dubbed the "Father of Latin Boogaloo", died Sunday of a bacterial infection. He was 78.

GrayLinnorm · 17th February 2009, 10:01 PM

British comedic actress Diane Holland, who was best known for playing Yvonne Stewart Hargreaves on the sitcom Hi-De-Hi!, died January 24 of bronchial pneumonia. She was 78.

RigaMortus2 · 17th February 2009, 11:24 PM

There were quite a few semi-famous people that died in that plane crash over the weekend.

Mark · 18th February 2009, 06:30 AM

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Originally Posted by RigaMortus2

There were quite a few semi-famous people that died in that plane crash over the weekend.

List here

GrayLinnorm · 18th February 2009, 03:50 PM

Big band and jazz drummer Louie Bellson died last Saturday of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 84.

Bellson performed on over 200 albums with such notables as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Ella Fitzgerald, and Pearl Bailey, who he married. He wrote over 1,000 compositions and arrangements in several genres including jazz, swing, and ballet.

GrayLinnorm · 20th February 2009, 03:07 AM

Kelly Groucutt, the bass player for the Electric Light Orchestra, died today of a heart attack. He was 63.

Dannyalcatraz · 21st February 2009, 02:47 AM

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Originally Posted by GrayLinnorm

Kelly Groucutt, the bass player for the Electric Light Orchestra, died today of a heart attack. He was 63.

Dang.

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Snooks Eaglin, the idiosyncratic New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist with fleet-fingered dexterity and a boundless repertoire, died Wednesday afternoon. He was 72.
New Orleans guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies at 72 - Keith Spera - Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

GrayLinnorm · 21st February 2009, 06:19 AM

Socks the Cat, the former pet of President Clinton, was euthanized yesterday. He(?) was 19.

Villano · 22nd February 2009, 05:37 AM

It's being reported that actor Robert Quarry, best known for his horror films like "Count Yorga", passed away today. He was 83.

GrayLinnorm · 22nd February 2009, 04:49 PM

Oreste Lionello, an Italian comedian who dubbed voices in English language movies for release in Italy, died last Thursady after a long illness. He was 81.

Lionello dubbed the voices for Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin, Jerry Lewis, Gene Wilder and other comic actors.

GrayLinnorm · 23rd February 2009, 09:03 PM

Christopher Nolan, an Irish poet and novelist with cerebral palsey (he used a stick to type his works), died last Friday. He was 43.

Nolan's autobiography won the prestigious Whitbread Award in 1988.