| For the thirteenth year running, we present our fondest farewells to the recently departed. If they were on any lists, or if they mattered at all in our world, you'll find them here. | As the names stretches down the page, you can use our patented magic button to see the freshest fatalities (which are at the bottom). You wanna see the stiffs of old? Go nuts. |
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Claiborne Pell (01/01) And our first stiff of the year is the exciting senator from Rhode Island, creator of the Pell Grant, and apparently the only politician on all of Wikipedia without a "scandals" section. Going to be a big year. Pat Hingle (01/03) Hingle buried. Griffin Bell (01/05) Rung. Patrick McGoohan (01/13) Number Deep 6. Ricardo Montalban (01/14) Boss...? Boss...? Andrew Wyeth (01/16) Easel come, easel go. John Updike (01/27) Rabbit make space. Ingemar Johansson (01/30) Down for the count. Lux Interior (02/04) Design flaw. James Whitmore (02/06) Brooks was here. Philip Jose Farmer (02/25) He wrote "A Woman a Day" and "Blown". We might be on to what killed him. Paul Harvey (02/28) Good day - you irritating, monotone, over opinionated, one-trick-pony weasel. Horton Foote (03/04) One Foote in the grave. Natasha Richardson (03/19) Went downhill fast. Lou Saban (03/29) Football coach - from when the footballs and helmets were made out of the same stuff. Marilyn Chambers (04/12) Under the green floor. J.G. Ballard (04/19) Just Gone? Jolly Ghost? Joined Graveyard? Jazzy Ghoul? Jostled Grave? Take your pick. Doc Blanchard (04/19) The doctor is out. Jack Cardiff (04/22) Marilyn Monroe once described him as "the best in the world". But then again, she was wasted a LOT. Bea Arthur (04/25) And then there's mulch. Danny Gans (05/01) The Las Vegas billboard industry just took a BIG hit. Jack Kemp (05/02) Unkempt. Dom DeLuise (05/04) Dom Dead. Decomposing delightfully. Deadpoolers delirious. Dom DiMaggio (05/08) Dom duplicate. Doornail dead. Deadpoolers dumbfounded. Chuck Daly (05/09) Might as well now. Koko Taylor (06/03) This is what happens when you keep wang dang doodling all night long. David Carradine (06/04) Time for you to leave. Kenny Rankin (06/07) Peaceful indeed. Ed McMahon (06/23) Heeeeeeeeeeere's Eternity! Farrah Fawcett (06/25) Not just Charlie's angel anymore. Michael Jackson (King of pop) (06/25) He touched so many... Sky Saxon (06/25) Clearly, he was pushing too hard. Gale Storm (06/27) Now downgraded to a tropical depression. Billy Mays (06/28) DEAD. BLURB PENDING. PLEASE STAND BY. Karl Malden (07/01) DEAD. BLURB PENDING. PLEASE STAND BY. |
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