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January
Art Clokey
(animator) -- Dead. Died January 8, 2010. Born October 12, 1921. Inventor of Gumby, he was also the animator for Davey and Goliath.
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Miep Gies
(Hero) -- Dead. Died January 11, 2010. Born February 15, 1909. An employee of Otto Frank who helped hide Anne Frank's family during part of WWII, and saved Anne's diary, returning it to her father after the war.
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Teddy Pendergrass (singer/songwriter) Dead. Colon cancer. Died January 13, 2010. Born March 26, 1950. Great singer ("If You Don't Know Me By Now"), paralyzed in a 1982 accident. IMDb
Carl Smith (singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Died January 16, 2010. Born March 15, 1927. Opry star, wrote "Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher and Higher)," first husband of June Carter Cash IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Erich Segal (writer/academic) Dead. Heart attack/Parkinson's disease. Died January 17, 2010. Born June 16, 1937. Best-known for Love Story. IMDB
Robert B. Parker (writer) Dead. Died January 18, 2010. Born September 17, 1932. Most famous for the Spenser series of books, he wrote dozens of books, many of which were adapted for TV and the movies.
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Kate McGarrigle
(singer/songwriter) -- Dead. Died January 18, 2010. Born February 6, 1946.
Canadian folksinger, wrote "Heart Like a Wheel," mother of Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
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James Mitchell (actor/dancer) -- Dead. Heart disease/Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Died January 22, 2010. Born February 29, 1920. Starred in All My Children as Palmer Cortlandt for nearly 30 years, played Curly in the dream sequence ballet in Oklahoma and starred in Brigadoon on Broadway, survived by his partner, the costume designer Albert Wolsky. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Jean Simmons (actress) -- Dead. Died January 22, 2010. Born January 31, 1929. Guys and Dolls, Spartacus, Elmer Gantry and over 70 other films, once married to Stewart Granger. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Earl Wild
(pianist) -- Dead. Died January 23, 2010. Born November 26, 1915.
Classical pianist and teacher who started giving concerts on the radio by the time he was 12, recorded Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the NBC Orchestra when he was 21, and gave his last concert at 92!
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Pernell Roberts (actor) -- Dead. Died January 24, 2010. Born May 18, 1928. Bonanza, Trapper John, MD. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Zelda Rubinstein (actress) -- Dead. Multiple organ failure. Died January 27, 2010. Born May 28, 1933. The psychic in the Poltergeist movies, AIDS activist. IMDb Obituary
J. D. Salinger (reclusive writer) -- Dead. Died January 27, 2010. Born January 1, 1919. Catcher in the Rye IMDb Obituary
Howard Zinn
(historian) -- Dead. Heart attack Died January 27, 2010. Born August 24, 1922.
Longtime anti-war activist, he wrote
Aaron Ruben (producer) -- Dead. Pneumonia Died January 30, 2010. Born March 1, 1914. Producer of TV shows, including The Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle and Sanford and Son.
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Kage Baker
(SF writer) -- Dead. Cancer Died January 31, 2010. Born June 10, 1952. Wrote the Company novels, finalist for Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy awards.
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February
David Brown (producer) -- Dead. Died February 1, 2010. Born July 28, 1916. Produced movies like Jaws, The Sting and The Player, and the Broadway show Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, married to Helen Gurley Brown. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Frances Reid
(actress) -- Dead. Died February 3, 2010. Born December 12, 1914.
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William Tenn
(SF writer/college professor) -- Dead. Congestive heart failure
Died February 7, 2010. Born May 9, 1920. Wrote dozens of satiric SF stories including "On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi," "Child's Play" and "Winthrop Was Stubborn," longtime Penn State professor (his real name was Phil Klass), born same day as Frank Perdue and Richard Adams.
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Caroline McWilliams (actress) -- Dead. Multiple myeloma Died February 11, 2010. Born April 4, 1945. Guiding Light, Soap, Benson, ex-wife of Micheal Keaton. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Dick Francis
(writer/jockey) -- Dead. Died February 14, 2010. Born October 31, 1920.
A winning jockey in England, he later turned to writing racing-related mysteries.
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Andrew Koenig (actor/editor) -- Dead. Died circa mid-February 2010. Born August 17, 1968. Boner in Growing Pains, edited a number of movies, son of Walter Koenig. IMDb Obituary
Kathryn Grayson
(singer/actress) -- Dead. Died February 17, 2010. Born February 9, 1922.
Starred in Showboat, Kiss Me Kate.
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Lionel Jeffries (actor/director) -- Dead. Died February 19, 2010. Born June 10, 1926. Played the grandfather in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (even though he was younger than "son" Dick Van Dyke), wrote and directed the classic movie The Railway Children. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Robert McCall
(artist) -- Dead. Died February 26, 2010. Born 1919.
Astronomical artist who worked for NASA and movies such as
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March
Bruce J. Graham (architect) -- Dead. Died March 6, 2010. Born December 1, 1925. Designed the Sears Tower and Hancock Center in Chicago. Obituary
Corey Haim
('80s teen star) -- Dead. Pneumonia, enlarged heart. Died March 10, 2010. Born December 23, 1971. Lucas, The Lost Boys, did a reality show with his old friend Corey Feldman in the late '00s.
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Merlin Olsen
(football player/actor/sportscaster) -- Dead. Mesothelioma Died March 11, 2010. Born September 15. 1940.
Los Angeles Rams tackle, football color commentator, Little House on the Prairie
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Peter Graves (actor) -- Dead. Died March 14, 2010. Born March 18. 1926. In the original Mission Impossible, the main voice behind A & E's Biography, brother of James Arness. IMDb Obituary
Alex Chilton
(singer) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died March 17, 2010. Born December 28, 1950. Had one huge song from the '60s "My Baby, She Wrote Me a Letter," sang in The Box Tops and started Big Star.
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Fess Parker
(actor) -- Dead. Died March 18, 2010. Born August 16, 1925.
Played Davy Crockett in the '50s that launched the coonskin cap fad among kids, Daniel Boone, winemaker.
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Liz Carpenter (writer) -- Dead. Pneumonia Died March 20, 2010. Born September 1, 1920. Down-to-earth writer who was Lady Bird Johnson's press secretary and fought for women's causes. Obituary
Stewart Udall (politician) -- Dead. After effects of a fall. Died March 20, 2010. Born January 31, 1920. Helped expand national parks and helped craft environmental legislation during the 1960s. IMDb Obituary
Robert Culp (actor) -- Dead. Injuries from a fall. Died March 24, 2010. Born August 16, 1930. I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, Everybody Loves Raymond and lots more TV. IBDB IMDb Obituary
June Havoc (actress) -- Dead. Died March 28, 2010. Born November 8, 1913. Actress with an interesting career and a tendency to write about it (like her older sister, Gypsy Rose Lee), a star of Gentleman's Agreement, she played Miss Hannigan on Broadway in Annie. IBDB IMDb Obituary
April
Ed Roberts
(computer developer/doctor) -- Dead. Pneumonia. Died April 1, 2010. Born August 23, 1941. Founded MITS, an early developer of calculator and computer kits and employer of Paul Allen and Bill Gates in the mid-'70s. Roberts sold his company and later went to med school.
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John Forsythe (actor) -- Dead. Pneumonia, cancer. Died April 1, 2010. Born January 29, 1918. Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty. Make memorial contribution to American Cancer Society. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Corin Redgrave (actor) -- Dead. Died April 6, 2010. Born July 16, 1939. Probably best-known to Americans as Hamish, the Scottish husband in Four Weddings and a Funeral, a political activist like his sister Vanessa. IBDB IMDb Obituary
John Schoenherr
(artist) -- Dead. Died April 8, 2010. Born July 5, 1935.
Painted hundreds of famous science fiction book/magazine covers (Dune) and illustrated the Caldecott-award-winning children's book Owl Moon.
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Meinhardt Raabe (actor) -- Dead. Died April 9, 2010. Born September 2, 1915. Played the Munchkin Coronor in The Wizard of Oz, injured in a car accident in 1997 that killed his wife, Marie. IMDb Obituary
Dixie Carter
(actress) -- Dead. Died April 10, 2010. Born May 25, 1939. Designing Women, Family Law, married to Hal Holbrook since the early '80s.
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George Scithers
(editor) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died April 19, 2010. Born May 14, 1929. Longtime science fiction fan, Scithers promoted heroic literature, was the first editor of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine (for which he won two Hugo Awards) and revived Weird Tales.
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Dorothy Height
(civil rights activist) -- Dead. Died April 20, 2010. Born March 20, 1912. One of the early, visible women in the US civil rights, Height encouraged dialog between white and black women in the South, worked with
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Alan Sillitoe (writer) -- Dead. Died April 25 2010. Born March 4, 1928. Wrote "The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner" and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Dorothy Provine (actress) -- Dead. Emphysema. Died April 25, 2010. Born January 20, 1937. Many '60s movie comedies, like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
May
Lynn Redgrave
(actress) -- Dead. Breast cancer Died May 2, 2010. Born March 8, 1943. Georgy Girl and lots of other comedies, strong dramatic turn in Gods and Monsters and an excellent short part in Kinsey.
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Lena Horne (singer/actress) -- Dead. Died May 9, 2010 Born June 30, 1917. Had a "Summertime" voice, one of the first major black stars in Hollywood. IBDB IMDb Obituary
Frank Frazetta
(artist) -- Dead. Stroke Died May 10, 2010. Born February 9, 1928.
Created thousands of book covers and posters on a swords and sorcery theme.
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Martin Gardner
(writer/puzzle-maker/skeptic) -- Dead. Died May 22, 2010.
Born October 21, 1914. Author of Scientific American's "Mathematical Games" for over 25 years and wrote many books.
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Art Linkletter (talk show host/writer) -- Dead. Died May 26, 2010. Born July 17, 1912. Hosted House Party and wrote books like Kids Say the Darndest Things. IMDb Obituary
Gary Coleman (former child star) -- Dead. Intercranial hemorrhage. Died May 28, 2010. Born February 8, 1968. Diff'rent Strokes. IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Dennis Hopper
(actor) -- Dead. Cancer. Died May 29, 2010. Born May 17, 1936. Hoosiers, Blue Velvet and directed and starred in the classic Easy Rider. A former space cadet, Hopper was clean and sober for many years, former husband of Brooke Hayward and (briefly) of Michelle Phillips.
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June
Rue McClanahan (actress) -- Dead. Stroke. Died June 3, 2010. Born February 21, 1934. Maude, Mama's Family. Golden Girls - married six times, battled breast cancer. IBDB IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Jimmy Dean (singer/sausage king) -- Dead. Died June 13, 2010. Born August 10, 1928. "Big Bad John." IMDb Obituary FindAGrave
Robert Byrd
(senator) -- Dead. Died June 28, 2010. Born November 20, 1917. Longest-serving senator, represented West Virginia as Senator for over 50 years.
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July
Harvey Pekar
(comics writer) -- Dead. Died July 12, 2010. Born October 8, 1939. His quirky American Splendor was the basis for a movie about his life, also wrote Our Cancer Year.
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James P. Hogan
(writer) -- Dead. Died July 12, 2010. Born June 27, 1941. Science fiction writer (The Genesis Experiment) whose later writings frequently blurred the line between fantasy and reality.
George Steinbrenner
(Yankees owner) -- Dead. Heart attack. Died July 13, 2010. Born July 4, 1930. Owned the Yankees from 1973, many famous battles with Billy Martin.
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Daniel Schorr
(journalist) -- Dead. Died July 23, 2010. Born August 31, 1916.
Longtime CBS reporter, an analyst for NPR at the time of his death.
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