In Remembrance---2009

[Ed_Laprade]

Comic legend and noted gourmand, Dom DeLuise, died Monday, May 4, 2009 at 75

A funny guy, he'll be missed. So can we give him his well deserved applause now? (His tag line, at least in the early days, was: "Save it... for the end!")

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Mickey Carroll, one of the last surviving diminutive "Munchkins" in the 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," died of natural causes on Thursday in Missouri at age 89, a newspaper reported.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Sam Cohn, a powerful talent agent who represented Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, and many others, died Wednesday. He was 79.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Dom DiMaggio, the brother of Joe DiMaggio who was also a baseball player (for the Boston Red Sox), died today. He was 92.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Chuck Daly, coach of the Detroit Pistons, died today of pancreatic cancer. He was 78.

Daly led the Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships, then coached the Dream Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Venetia Phair, who came up with the name for the planet Pluto when she was 11, died April 30. She was 90.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Donald "Ean" Evans, the bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd, died Wednesday from an agressive form of cancer. He was 48.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

John Furia Jr., a prolific screen and television writer, died Thursday. He was 79.

Among the shows he worked on were Bonanza, The Waltons, The Twilight Zone, Kung Fu, and Hawaii Five-O.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Harold Fischer, an ace fighter pilot whose capture by the Chinese during the Korean War exacerbated tension in U.S.-Chinese relationships, died April 30 from complications of back surgery. He was 83.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Wayman Tisdale, a three-time All-American at Oklahoma who played 12 seasons in the NBA, died after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 44.