Tuesday, September 15, 2009

2009 Is the Celebrity's Year of DEATH!


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 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 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.


February
February 4th- 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 22: Howard Zieff (Age 81) : Director of My Girl, My Girl 2, and Private Benjamin. Pic : COD: Complications from Parkinson's disease.
February 26: Clarence Swensen (Age 91) : A Wizard of Oz munchkin. Pic : COD: No official cause of death.

March
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 14: Jeff Komlo (Age 52) : Former QB for Detriot Lions and Tampa Bay Buccs. Pic : COD: Car crash.
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 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 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 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 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 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 20: Lucy Gordon (Age 28): Actress in Spider-Man 3 and The Four Feathers. Pic: COD: Suicide by hanging.
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 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 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 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 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.

July
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 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

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 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 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 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 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: Henry Gibson.
September 18: Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary.

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