In Remembrance---2009

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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.

 

[Truth Seeker]

KHAAAAAAAAAAN.

Ricardo Montalban

‘Fantasy Island’ star Ricardo Montalban dies - Television- msnbc.com

 

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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.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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.

 

[Mark]

Charles H. Schneer, film producer, dies at 88

 

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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.