2010----In Remembrance.

[Truth Seeker]

Ian Carmichael, a debonair actor who made a specialty of playing the well-meaning buffoon in British films of the 1950s and who went on to star on television as Bertie Wooster, P. G. Wodehouse’s oblivious twit, and Lord Peter Wimsey, Dorothy Sayers’s aristocratic detective, died Friday at his home in Grosmont, in northern England. He was 89.

In Remembrance.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Swamp rock artist Dale Hawkins, best known for "Susie Q", died yesterday of colon cancer. He was 73.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Internationally famous luthier and co-founder of Fernandes Guitars, Taku Sakashta, is feared dead. Positive ID of the body found near his Rohnert Park workshop in Santa Rosa, CA will not be made until Tuesday, however. Police are calling it a homicide.

Renowned guitar maker feared slain | | PressDemocrat.com

Here's a thread at Guitar Player that also announced the death, but also contains examples of his work independent of what he did with Fernandes.

http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2164984#Post2164984

Update: The death has been confirmed. Fortunately, though, an arrest has been made.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/17/BAN41C295D.DTL

 

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Ephraim J. "Red" Rocha, who played for the NBA champion Syracuse Nationals in 1955, died last Saturday after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 86.

Rocha scored 6,362 points in his career and went on to coach the Detroit Pistons and the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors.

 

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Actress Kathryn Grayson, who co-starred in three of the best known film musicals: Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat, and Kiss Me Kate, died yesterday in her sleep. She was 88.

 

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British actor and director Lionel Jeffries died today. He was 83.

Jeffries wrote and directed The Railway Children and played Dick Van Dyke's father in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

 

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Bill Gordon, who designed the Arecibo Radio Telescope that spotted the first planets beyond our solar system, died Tuesday. He was 92.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Alexander Haig has died.

Alexander Haig dies, praised by President Obama » Latest News » Corsicana Daily Sun, Corsicana, Texas

 

[Jamdin]

Jamie Gillis, 1970's Adult Film Legend Dead At 66.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Actress Caroline McWilliams, who was on Benson, Soap, and The Guiding Light among other shows, died February 11 of multiple mylenoma. She was 64.