In Remembrance---2009

[Dannyalcatraz]

Hugh Van Es, a Dutch photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War and recorded the most famous image of the fall of Saigon in 1975 — a group of people scaling a ladder to a CIA helicopter on a rooftop — died Friday morning in Hong Kong, his wife said. He was 67 years old.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bob Rosburg, who won the 1959 PGA Championship and spent three decades with ABC Sports as the first reporter to call the shots from the golf course, has died. He was 82.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Actor Frank Aletter died Wednesday of cancer. He was 83.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Greek shadow play artist Evgenios Spatharis died over Mother's Day weekend from injuries sustained in a fall. He was 85.

 

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Wayne Allwine, who did the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, died Monday of diabetes. He was 62.

In addition to voiceover work, Allwine also did sound effects, winning an Emmy for sound editing for his work on Amazing Stories. He was married to fellow voice artist Russi Taylor, who does Minnie Mouse, among other characters.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

British actress Lucy Gordon, who appeared in Spider-Man 3 and Serendipity, among other films, hung herself yesterday. She was almost 29.

 

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Actress Carol Cole, the daughter of Nat "King" Cole, died Monday of lung cancer, ironically the same day her sister Natalie got a kidney transplant. She was 64.

Carol appeared on her father's variety show, Sanford & Son, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Daniel Carasso, founder of Dannon Yogurt, died Sunday. He was 103.

Carasso was credited for helping popularize yogurt.

 

[GrayLinnorm]

Herbert York, a leading physicist in the development of the atom bomb during World War II who later became an arms control advocate and founding chancellor of the University of California, San Diego, died Tuesday of leukemia. He was 87.

 

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Joan Alexander, who played Lois Lane on The Adventures of Superman radio show, died Thursday. She was 94.