2010----In Remembrance.

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Russian poet and writer Andrei Voznesensky died yesterday. He was 77.

 

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Rue McClanahan died today after suffering a massive stroke. She was 76.

McClanahan was best known for playing Blanche Deveraux on The Golden Girls, but before then had played Maude's ditzy neighbor Vivian on Maude, and was on the first season of Mama's Family.

Betty White is now the only surviving Golden Girl.

 

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Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno dies at 103

Japanese dancer Kazuo Ohno, credited with bringing the Butoh style to wider audiences, has died at the age of 103.

Ohno was famed for his slow movements, often performed from a crouching position. He usually wore white face make-up while dancing.

In Remembrance.

 

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Richard Dunn, best known for playing an eccentric talk show host on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, died today. He was 75.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden dead at 99.

 

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Marvin Isley, bass player and youngest member of the Isley Brothers, died Sunday. He was 56.

 

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British food critic Egon Ronay dies at 94

Food critic Egon Ronay, whose eponymous restaurant guides helped Britain embrace fine dining after years of postwar austerity, died Saturday. He was 94.

In Remembrance.

 

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Donald Windham, Novelist and Memoirist, Dies at 89

Donald Windham, a novelist and memoirist who left vivid pictures of literary life in New York, both fictional and factual, when he was an intimate of Tennessee Williams, Lincoln Kirstein and Truman Capote, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.

In Remembrance.

 

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Girl, five, dies days after singing for Simon Cowell

A five-year-old from Gloucestershire has lost her battle with a brain tumour days after fulfilling her ambition to sing for Simon Cowell.

Bethany Fenton, who performed Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the Britain's Got Talent judge last Saturday, died on Tuesday with her family at her side.

In Remembrance.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Radio drama pioneer dies

Himan Brown, who created dramas that used sound effects like a creaking door and a steam engine to enthrall listeners during the golden age of radio, died June 4 in Manhattan. He was 99

In Remembrance.

 

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Robert Wussler, executive producer for CBS (he was only 39 when he got the job) and co-founder of CNN, died June 5 after a long illness. He was 73.

Among his innovations were the expansion of satellite usage in news coverage and The NFL Today, the first pregame telecast.

 

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Peter Keefe, an animation executive best known for bringing Voltron to the United States, died May 27 of throat cancer. He was 57.

Among the other shows he created were Denver, the Last Dinosaur, and Widget.

 

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Country singer Jimmy Dean died yesterday. He was 81.

Dean had a #1 hit with "Big Bad John" and his own TV series (which was where Rolf the Muppet dog first appeared), but was probably better known in later years for his sausages.

 

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Heidi Kabel, famous German theatre actress, died yesterday at the age of 95.
Heidi Kabel was most famous for her roles at Hamburg's Ohnsorg theatre, which focused on Lower German (Plattdeutsch) language plays.
Volksschauspielerin Heidi Kabel 95-jährig gestorben | tagesschau.de

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslNLjmQb4o]YouTube - Heidi Kabel - "Herz, Humor und Happy End" - Porträt 1/5[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Ml6hoWUSg&feature=related]YouTube - Ohnsorg-Theater - Tratsch im Treppenhaus 1966, 1/5[/ame]

 

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Garry Shider of P-Funk fame dies at 56

His habit of wearing a loincloth onstage earned him the nickname “Diaperman.” But there was nothing infantile about Garry Shider’s approach to the funk.
The Plainfield native and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, best known as the musical director of George Clinton’s Parliament and Funkadelic bands, died today at the age of 56, from complications arising from brain and lung cancer.

We saw him play with George Clinton in February. One of the best shows we'd ever seen.

 

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Aww man...

 

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Eccentric British writer Sebastian Horsley died yesterday of a drug overdose. He was 47.

 

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Nobel Prize winning author Jose Saramago, best known for his novel Blindness, died today. He was 87.

 

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Ronald Neame, who produced and co-wrote classic British films such as Great Expectations and directed The Poseidon Adventure and was nominated for three Oscars, died Wednesday. He was 99.

 

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Manute Bol, former NBA player, dead at 47.
Bol dies as basketball’s gentle giant - NBA - Yahoo! Sports