January
January 2:
Jett Travolta (Age 16) : Son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston.
Pic : COD: Fatal blow to the head after seizure.
January 3:
Pat Hingle (Age: 84) : Commissionor Gordon of first Batman series.
Pic : COD: Leukemia.
January 6:
Ron Asheton (Age 60) : Notable guitarist and co-writer lyrics for Iggy Pop's The Stooges.
Pic : COD: Apparent Heart Attack.
January 7:
Bob Wilkins (Age 76) : Creator and host of Creature Features.
Pic : COD: Alzheimer's disease
January 13:
Patrick McGoohan (Age 80) : Actor from Scanners, Silver Streak, & Braveheart.
Pic : COD: Death after short illness.
January 14:
Ricardo Montalban (Age 88) : Most famous for his Khan role on Star Trek.
Pic : COD: No official cause yet.
January 18:
Bob May (Age 69) : Played The Robot on Lost in Space.
Pic : COD: Congestive Heart Failure
January 22:
Veatrice Rice (Age 60) : Played a foul-mouthed security guard on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Pic : COD: Cancer
January 25:
Kim Manners (Age 58) : Notable TV series director which shows included X-Files and Supernatural.
Pic : COD: Lung Cancer.
January 27:
John Updike (Age 76) : American Novelist famous for Rabbit series.
Pic : COD: Lung Cancer.
January 28:
Billy Powell (Age 56) : Keyboardist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Pic : COD: Heart attack.
January 29:
John Martyn (Age 60) : British guitarist who has worked with Phil Collins and Eric Clapton.
Pic : COD: No official cause yet.
January 29:
Hank Crawford (Age 74) : Sideman sax player for Eric Clapton and Ray Charles.
Pic : COD: Complications from a 2001 stroke.
February
February 4:
Tom Brumley (Age 73) : Steel guitarist of Buckaroos and Nelson's Stone Canyon Band.
Pic : COD: No official cause yet.
February 4:
Erick Purkhiser a.k.a. Lux Interior (Age 62) : Lead singer and founding member of punk band The Cramps.
Pic : COD: Heart condition.
February 6:
James Whitmore (Age 87) : Actor who starred in Shawshank Redemption and The Relic
Pic : COD: Lung Cancer
February 10:
Jeremy Lusk ( Age 24) : American motocross rider.
Pic : COD: Head injuries due to a stunt.
February 14:
Louie Bellson (Age 84) : Acclaimed jazz drummer.
Pic : COD: Complications of Parkinson's disease.
February 19:
Kelly Groucutt (Age 63) : Former Bass player for Electric Light Orchestra, ELO.
Pic : COD: Heart Attack.
February 19:
Miike Tenkula (Age 34) : Lead guitarist and songwriter for metal band Sentenced.
Pic : COD: No official cause of death.
February 20:
Robert Quarry (Age 83) : Portrayed Count Yorga, the vampire, in notable Vincent Price films.
Pic : COD: No official cause of death - apparent natural causes.
February 22:
Howard Zieff (Age 81) : Director of My Girl, My Girl 2, and Private Benjamin.
Pic : COD: Complications from Parkinson's disease.
February 25:
Randall Bewley (Age 54) : Guitarist for band Pylon. No Pic: COD : Heart attack.
February 26:
Clarence Swensen (Age 91) : A Wizard of Oz munchkin.
Pic : COD: No official cause of death.
February 27:
Alan Landers (Age 65) : Model for Winston cigarettes.
Pic : COD: Cancer.
March
March 1:
Robert Bruce (Age 65) : Professional wrestler and had a small role in A Clockwork Orange.
Pic : COD: Died suddenly after short illness.
March 1:
Marquis Cooper (Age 26) : Professional football player for Oakland Raiders.
Pic : COD: Possible hypothermia and/or drowning.
March 1:
Corey Smith (Age 29) : Professional football player for Detroit Lions.
Pic : COD: Possible hypothermia and/or drowning.
March 3:
Sydney Earle Chaplin (Age 80) : Son of Charlie Chaplin and actor of Satan's Cheerleaders.
Pic : COD: No cause yet determined.
March 4:
Horton Foote (Age 92) : Novelist and screenwriter who wrote the screenplay for To Kill A Mocking Bird.
Pic : COD: Apparent natural causes.
March 4:
John Cephas (Age 78) : American blues guitarist.
Pic : COD: Natural causes.
March 8:
Willie King (Age 65) : American blues singer and guitarist.
Pic : COD: Heart attack.
March 11:
Charles Lewis Jr. (Age 43) : Co-founder of MMA fighting clothesline label called TapouT.
Pic : COD: Car crash.
March 14:
Altovise Davis (Age 65) : Widow of Sammy Davis Jr. with a short stint of acting.
PIC : COD: Stroke.
March 14:
Jeff Komlo (Age 52) : Former QB for Detriot Lions and Tampa Bay Buccs.
Pic : COD: Car crash.
March 15:
Ron Silver (Age 62) : Actor who was in Timecop and The Entity.
Pic : COD: Esophageal Cancer.
March 18:
Natasha Richardson (Age 45) : British actress married to Liam Neeson.
Pic: COD: Traumatic brain injury.
March 18:
Moultrie Patten (Age 89) : Actor in television series Northern Exposure.
Pic : COD: Pneumonia.
March 24:
Uriel Jones (Age 74) : Drummer for Funk Brothers.
Pic : COD: Complications from a heart attack.
March 29:
Maurice Jarre (Age 84) : Composer for the films Ghost, Dead Poets Society, Fatal Attraction, and Dreamscape.
Pic : COD: Cancer.
March 29:
Andy Hallett (Age 33) : Actor in Angel TV series.
Pic : COD: Heart failure.
April
April 2:
Lou Perryman (Age 67) : Actor who had roles in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 and Poltergeist.
Pic : COD: Murdered by stabbing.
April 5:
Wouter Barendrecht (Age 43) : Producer who produced such films as Vampire Hunters and Shortbus.
Pic : COD: Heart failure.
April 7:
Jack Wrangler (Age 62) : Porn actor who, majorly preformed in gay adult films, was in Devil in Miss Jones 2 and Guess Who's Coming?
Pic : COD: Lung disease.
April 9:
Nick Adenhart (Age 22) : Baseball pitcher for the Anaheim Angels.
Pic : COD: Car crash.
April 9:
Lee Madden (Age 82) : Director of Night Creature, The Night God Screamed, and the comedy horror film Ghost Fever.
Pic : COD: Pneumonia.
April 12:
Marilyn Chambers (Age 57) : Legendary porn actress who starred in Behind the Green Door.
Pic : COD: Unknown cause of death.
April 19:
J.G. Ballard (Age 78) : British Novelist of the celebrated novel Crash later turned film directed by David Cronenberg.
Pic : COD: Prostate Cancer
April 22:
Jack Cardiff (Age 94) : Cinematographer who's work included Rambo: First Blood II, Conan The Destroyer, and Stephen King's Cat's Eye. He also directed The Freakmaker.
Pic : COD: No Cause of death but apparent natural causes.
April 22:
Ken Annakin (Age 94): Director of The Longest Day and The Hellions.
Pic : COD: Complications from a heart attack and stroke in February.
April 22:
Kim Weiskopf (Age 62): Writer of a few episodes of Full House and Married with Children.
No Pic: COD: Pancreatic cancer.
April 25:
Beatrice Arthur (Age 86): One of the Golden Girls.
Pic : COD: Cancer.
April 28:
Buddy Rose (Age 56): Professional wrestler nicknamed "Playboy."
Pic : COD: Unknown cause of death.
May
May 1:
Danny Gans (Age 52): American entertainer who circuited on the Vegas strip and was also a pro baseball player as well as an extra in Bull Durham.
Pic: COD: Fatal reaction to painkillers.
May 1:
Marc Rocco (Age 46): Writer of The Jacket and Dream A Little Dream.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
May 4:
Dom Deluise (Age 75): American actor who played in numerous Mel Brooks movies such as Space Balls, Robin Hood: Men in Tights and History of the World Part I.
Pic: COD: Kidney failure and respiratory problems.
May 5:
BJ Flores (Age 30): Professional boxer who held the U.S. Amateur Heavyweight Belt 2001-2002.
Pic: COD: Collapsed during fight and died 5 days later by possible body/head injuries.
May 6:
Ean Evans (Age 48): Bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
May 7:
Micky Carroll (Age 89): One of the munchkins from The Wizard of Oz.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
May 7:
Linda Dangcil (Age 67): Sister Ana on the Flying Nun TV show.
Pic: COD: Throat Cancer
May 8:
Dom DiMaggio (Age 92): Baseball player and brother of Joe DiMaggio.
Pic: COD: pneumonia.
May 8:
Blue Iris (Age 62): Member of Howard Stern's The Wack Pack and a performer in granny porn.
Pic: COD: Heart attack complications.
May 9:
Stephen Bruton (Age 60): Guitarist who performed with Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and more.
Pic: COD: Throat Cancer.
May 11:
Mark Landon (Age 60): Small time actor and eldest son of Michael Landon.
No Pic: Unknown cause of death.
May 13:
Frank Aletter (Age 83): Tv actor who became a regular in older shows such as Bring Up Buddy and It's About Time.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
May 15:
Bud Tingwell (Age 86): Aussie actor who had roles in Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Murder She Said.
Pic: COD: Prostate cancer.
May 15:
Wayman Tisdale (Age 44): Former pro basketball player and jazz bass guitarist.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
May 18:
Robert Anthony Burton II (Age 21): Atlanta based rapper named Dolla.
Pic: COD: Shot to death during fight in L.A.
May 18:
Wayne Allwine (Age 62): The voice of Mickey Mouse since 1977.
Pic: COD: Complications from diabetes.
May 20:
Lucy Gordon (Age 28): Actress in Spider-Man 3 and The Four Feathers.
Pic: COD: Suicide by hanging.
May 24:
Jay Bennett (Age 45): Former guitarist for the band Wilco.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
May 25:
Matti Inkinen (Age 50): Lead singer of the Finnish electropop band SIG.
Pic: COD: Apparent drowning.
May 26:
Exodus Tyson (Age 4): Daughter of former heavy weight champion of boxing Mike Tyson.
Pic: COD: Accidental strangulation with a treadmill cord.
May 26:
Michael Ross (Age 89): Writer of some episodes of All in the Family, The Jeffersons and Threes Company.
No Pic : COD: Complication from a heart attack.
May 30:
Don Edmonds (Age 72): Director of the notorious naziploitation film Ilsa, She Wolf of the S.S.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death but most likely cancer.
May 31:
Millvina Dean (Age 97): Last survivor of the Titanic that sank in 1912.
Pic: COD: Pneumonia.
June
June 3:
David Carradine (Age 72): Star of the widely popular Kung Fu TV series and co-starred in Tarantino's Kill Bill movies.
Pic: COD: Autoerotic asphyxiation.
June 4:
Shih Kien (Age 96): Played major roles in various kung fu and Bruce Lee movies such as Enter the Dragon and Revenge of the Dragon.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
June 5:
Del Monroe (Age 73): Actor in the TV series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Pic: COD: Leukemia.
June 8:
Johnny Palermo (Age 27): TV Actor who played in Just For Kicks.
Pic: COD: Car accident.
June 9:
Michael Roof (Age 32): Actor in the xXx movies and Black Hawk Down.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
June 13:
Mitsuharu Misawa (Age 46): Professional Japanese wrestler.
Pic: COD: Heart attack.
June 14:
Bob Bogle (Age 75): Member and founder of the surf instrumental band The Ventures.
Pic : COD: Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
June 17:
John Josep[h Houghtaling (Age 92): Inventor of the Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
June 23:
Ed McMahon (Age 86): Popular sidekick of Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show.
Pic: COD: Various health irregularities.
June 25:
Farrah Fawcett (Age 62): Actress in popular T.V. series Charlie's Angels and former playboy model.
Pic: COD: Anal Cancer.
June 25:
Michael Jackson (Age 50): King of pop music.
Pic: COD: Cardiac Arrest.
June 25:
Sky Saxon (Age 72): Bass guitarists for band The Seeds.
Pic: COD: Died after brief illness.
June 28:
Billy Mays (Age 50): Infomercial seller and co-star of the Pitchman show.
Pic: COD: Heart disease.
June 28:
Fred Travelena (Age 66): American entertainer and comedian.
Pic: COD: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and prostate cancer.
June 29:
Alberto Jiménez (Age 34-35): Mexican midget pro wrestler.
Pic: Murder by overdose.
June 29:
Alejandro Jiménez (Age 35-36): Mexican midget pro wrestler.
Pic: Murder by overdose.
June 30:
Pina Bausch (Age 68): Modern Dance Choreographer.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
July
July 1:
Karl Malden (Age 97): American actor with horror credits in The Cat O'Nine Tails and Dead Ringer.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
July 1:
Harve Presnell (Age 75): American movie and broadway actor who had memorable roles in Fargo and Saving Private Ryan.
Pic: COD: Pancreatic cancer.
July 1:
Mollie Sugden (Age 86): British actress who appeared in Are You Being Served? television sitcom series.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
July 4:
Steve McNair (Age 36): Quarterback for the Tennessee Titans and Baltimore Ravens.
Pic: COD: Murder-suicide.
July 6:
Oscar Mayer Jr. (Age 95): Chairman of Oscar Mayer meat company.
No Pic: COD: Natural causes.
July 8:
Judi Ann Mason (Age 55): Writer of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit.
Pic: COD: Aortic dissection.
July 13:
Dash Snow (Age 27): Photographer and sculptor who portrayed violence, drugs, and explicit sex in his work.
Pic: COD: Heroin overdose.
July 17:
Walter Cronkite (Age 92): American broadcast journalist.
Pic: COD: Cerebrovascular disease.
July 21:
Les Lye (Age 84): Had numerous roles on the adult children program You Can Do That on Television?
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
July 25:
Clayton Hill (Age 78): Lead zombie in Dawn of the Dead and also played a priest in Hellraiser 3.
Pic: COD: Complications from pneumonia
July 31:
Baatin (Age 35): American rapper of the group Slum Village.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
July 31:
Harry Alan Towers (Age 88): British producer and screenwriter who wrote and was responsible for countless horror and exploitation classics such as Fu-Manchu, The Bloody Judge, Count Dracula (1970), 99 Women and Circus of Fear.
Pic: COD: After short illness.
August
August 1:
Naomi Sims (Age 61): First African American supermodel.
Pic: COD: Breast cancer.
August 4:
Blake Snyder (Age 51): Screenwriter who wrote Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot! and also wrote the kids' comedy Blank Check.
Pic: COD: Cardiac arrest.
August 5:
Budd Schulberg (Age 95): Screenwriter who wrote Little Orphan Annie and On the Water Front.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
August 6:
Reiko Ôhara (Age 62): Japanese actress who appeared in Zatoichi: The Festival of Fire and The Shogun Samurai.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death but body was discovered on this date and her death may have occured a week or two earlier.
August 6:
Jay Smith (Age 26): Indy wrestler from the west coast known as DJ Rizz or Ravishing Rizz.
Pic: COD: Car crash.
August 6:
John Hughes (Age 59): Director and writer who became famous for such films as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science and Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
Pic: COD: Cardiac arrest.
August 11:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver (Age 88): One of the Kennedys.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
August 12:
Rashied Ali (Age 74): Jazz drummer who usually worked with John Coltrane.
Pic: COD: Heart attack.
August 13:
Les Paul (Age 94): Inventor of the solid-body electric guitar.
Pic: COD: Complications from pneumonia.
August 13:
Allen Schellenberger (Age 39): Drummer for the American alternative rock band Lit.
Pic: COD: Brain cancer.
August 19:
Don Hewitt (Age 86): Inventor of 60 Minutes television program.
Pic: COD: Pancreatic cancer.
August 20:
Larry Knechtel (Age 69): Keyboardist who performed with notable bands such as The Beach Boys, Neil Diamond and The Dixie Chicks.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
August 21:
Johnny Carter (Age 75): R&B singer with The Flamingos and The Dells and is also in the RocknRoll Hall of Fame.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
August 23:
Ryan Jenkins (Age 32): Canadian reality star who was a major suspect in the murder of a co-star.
Pic: COD: Apparent suicide by hanging.
August 25:
Ted Kennedy (Age 77): Brother of John F. Kennedy and a memeber of the U.S. Senate.
Pic: COD: Brain cancer.
August 26:
Dominick Dunne (Age 83): American novelist and screenwriter.
Pic: COD: Bladder cancer.
August 27:
Shing Fui-On (Age 54): Hong Kong actor who appeared in such films as The Ebola Syndrome, The Killer and The Untold Story.
Pic: COD: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
August 28:
Adam Goldstein (Age 36): A popular disc jockey who most notably survived a fatal leerjet accident with Blink-182's Travis Barker.
Pic: COD: Suspected drug overdose.
September
September 1:
Jake Brockman (Age 53): Keyboards for the band Echo and the Bunnymen.
Pic: COD: Motorcycle accident.
September 11:
Larry Gelbart (Age 81): Main comedy writer behind the MASH TV series and also co-wrote Tootsie.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
September 11:
Jim Carroll (Age 59): Poet and music artist who formed the new wave/punk band The Jim Carroll Band.
Pic: COD: Heart attack.
September 13:
Paul Bruke (Age 83): American TV actor who also played the lead role in Psychic Killer.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
September 14:
Patrick Swayze (Age 57): Lead actor of Point Break, Ghost, Dirty Dancing and Road House.
Pic: COD: Pancreatic cancer.
September 14:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Gibson(Age 73): American actor who had parts in The 'burbs, Gremlins 2, and appeared in the TV sitcom Boston Legal.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
September 15:
Troy Kennedy-Martin (Age 77): Screenwriter who wrote the original The Italian Job and also wrote Kelly's Heros.
Pic: COD: Liver cancer.
September 16:
Mary Travers (Age 72): Part of the group Peter, Paul and Mary.
Pic: COD: Leukemia.
September 17:
Frank Deasy: (Age 49): Screenwriter who penned Prozac Nation.
Pic: COD: Liver cancer.
September 17:
Dick Durock: (Age 72): American actor and stuntman who portrayed Swamp Thing in the films and in the T.V. series.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
September 19:
Roc Raida (Age 37): A disc jockey who performed with the group X-Ecutioners.
Pic: COD: Complications from a car accident.
September 21:
Robert Ginty (Age 60): Main actor in The Exterminator and The Exterminator 2.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
September 22:
Lucy Voddon (Age 46): Famous for being the subject of the popular Beatles track "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
Pic: COD: Lupus.
September 24:
Susan Atkins (Age 61): A member of the Mason Family and a convicted murderer.
Pic: COD: Brain Cancer.
September 27:
Beau Velasco (Age ??): One of the two members of the punk/electronica band The Death Set.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
September 30:
John Couey (Age 51): American convicted murderer of Jessica Lunsford in February of 2005.
Pic: COD: Cancer.
October
October 2:
John Rivas (Age ??): A hip-hop artist and DJ who went by the stage name of Mr. Magic.
Mr. Magic: COD: Heart attack.
October 6:
Tony Fein (Age 27): Former Baltimore Ravens and Iraq veteran.
Pic: COD: Heart attack.
October 9:
Barry Letts (Age 84): Director and producer of the original Doctor Who television show.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
October 10:
Stephen Gately (Age 33): Irish pop singer of the boy band Boyzone.
Pic: COD: Pulmonary oedema.
October 10:
Veronika Neugebauer (Age 39): German voice actress and dubber who voiced some of the anime Sailor Moon and dubbed voices in the Scream trilogy, The Blair Witch Project and Wild Things.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
October 12:
Dickie Peterson (Age 61): Bassist and lead singer for band Blue Cheer.
Pic: COD: Liver cancer.
October 13:
Al Martino (Age 82): An American-Italian singer and actor who appeared in all three Godfather films as Johnny Fontane.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
October 14:
Lou Albano (Age 76): A professional wrestler known as Captain Lou also appeared on the kids television show The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! as the legendary Nintendo Mario character.
Pic: COD: Natural causes.
October 17:
Victor Mizzy (Age 93): A composer who did scores for Addams Family, Green Acres and delved a little into Sam Raimi's Spiderman 2 and 3.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
October 19:
Joseph Wiseman (Age 91): Canadian actor who portrayed the first James Bond villain Dr. No.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
October 22:
Soupy Sales (Age 83): American comedian who worked with puppets.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
November
November 7:
Joe Maross (Age 86): American television star who appeared in various TV shows such as Hawaii 5-0, Mission Impossible and The Twilight Zone to name a few.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
November 8:
Jerry Fuchs (Age 34): Former drummer for the indie electronic rock band !!!.
Pic: COD: Fell down elevator shaft.
November 10:
John Allen Muhammad (Age 48): Beltway/D.C. Sniper who gunned down 10 people during the late half of the summer of 2002.
Pic: COD: Lethal injection.
November 12:
Paul Wendkos (Age 87): Director of The Bad Seed, The Mephisto Waltz and Gidget.
Pic: COD: Stroke complications.
November 15:
Ken Ober (Age 52): Host of the MTV game show Remote Control.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
November 15:
Jocelyn Quivrin (Age 30): French actor who appeared in movies such as Syriana and Empire of the Wolves.
Pic: COD: Car crash fire.
November 15:
Dennis Cole (Age 69): Actor who appeared in Zombie Death House.
Pic: COD: Unknown cause of death.
November 16:
Edward Woodward (Age 79): British actor who starred in the original The Wicker Man and in Hot Fuzz.
Pic: COD: Pneumonia
December
Paul Nauschy
Umaga from the WWE
Chris Henry WR Cincinnati Bengals
Dan O Bannon (Return Of The Living Dead, Dead & Buried, Alien films)
Brittany Murphy (December 20)
Alaina Reed Hall (December 21