In Remembrance---2009

[Dannyalcatraz]

Sybll, the Downing Street cat has died after a short illness.

Sybil the Downing Street cat dies - Yahoo! News

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Filipinos mourned former President Corazon Aquino by displaying yellow ribbons and holding Masses as the nation prepared to bid farewell to the beloved democracy icon who swept away a dictator and fought off seven coup attempts.

Aquino, 76, died early Saturday after a yearlong battle with colon cancer, which had spread to other organs and left her bedridden since late June, her son, Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III, said.

Philippines mourns Corazon Aquino, dead at 76 - Yahoo! News

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Naomi Sims, the first black supermodel, died of cancer Saturday in Newark at age 61, the New York Times reports.

Sims broke barriers when she made the cover of Ladies Home Journal in 1968 — becoming the first black model to do so on a mainstream women’s magazine.

Naomi Sims, the first black supermodel, dies of cancer at age 61

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Influential choreographer Merce Cunningham died July 26. He was 90.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Bobby Robson, one of the most successful soccer coaches, died last Thursday of cancer. He was 76.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Virginia Carroll, a former model who co-starred in several westerns (including films with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), died July 23. She was 95.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Leela Naidu, a former Miss India and Bollywood actress, died July 28 after a long illness. She was 69.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Budd Schulberg, who wrote the screenplay (and won an Oscar) for On the Waterfront, died yesterday. He was 95.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Harry Alan Towers, who wrote and produced for both film and television, has died. He was 88.

His best known movies include Ten Little Indians, Cry the Beloved Country, Venus In Furs, and Klondike Fever.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Writer-director John Hughes died today of a heart attack. He was 59.

Hughes scripted a series of smart funny teen comedies in the 1980s, including such favorites as Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He probably had his biggest commercial success in 1990 by writing Home Alone. Unfortunately, his subsequent work had been copies of Home Alone.