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Obituaries

"Cast a cold Eye/On Life, on Death./Horseman, pass by!" -W.B. Yeats's headstone

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January 2008
- Suzanne Pleshette Dead
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 20, 08 5:00 AM CST
  
  Actress Suzanne Pleshette, best known for her role as a sardonic wife in the long-running hit TV series “The Bob Newhart Show,” died today at her home in Los Angeles, AP reports. She was 70, and had been treated for lung cancer. The arresting, intelligent actress with the husky voice enjoyed a storied film career, from her beginnings in teen flicks like Fate is the Hunter to mature roles in films including Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds . More »
- Chess King Bobby Fischer Dies
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jan 18, 08 7:24 AM CST
  
  Chess master Bobby Fischer, who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned Russian Boris Spassky in 1972, has died at age 64 in Iceland, the AP reports. Fischer is considered by many to be the greatest chess player ever, but his genius for the game was often overshadowed by his troubled eccentricities. The Chicago native became America's first world chess champion, but later renounced his citizenship. More »
- Father of the Hula Hoop, Frisbee Dies
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jan 17, 08 4:23 PM CST
  
  Richard Knerr, co-founder of the company that launched the Hula Hoop, Frisbee, and Silly String, died of a stroke Monday at 82. Knerr went from selling slingshots out of his parents' garage with lifelong pal and business partner Arthur Melin to creating the hugely profitable Wham-O toy company. The story is "pure Americana," one Frisbee fan told the Los Angeles Times . More »
- Cancer Pioneer Folkman Dead
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jan 16, 08 7:42 AM CST
  
  Cancer researcher Judah Folkman, whose insights and tenacity spawned a whole new branch of oncology, died Monday at age 74, the Boston Globe reports. Folkman pioneered the notion that cancer tumors could be halted if their blood supply was cut off; he persevered despite decades of skepticism in the field and research setbacks. The work led to the creation of several successful drugs, most notably Avastin, and there are many more in the pipeline. More »
- Actor Renfro Dead at 25; Cause Unknown
  
  newser | Access Hollywood | Jan 15, 08 8:22 PM CST
  
  Actor Brad Renfro, who kicked off his career at age 10 in The Client , was found dead at his Los Angeles home today, "Access Hollywood" reports. He was 25. The LA coroner's office confirmed his death; the cause of death is unknown and an investigation is under way. "There is no suspicion of foul play," a police spokesman told the LA Times. More »
- James Spain Dead at 81
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jan 6, 08 12:00 PM CST
  
  James Spain, a career diplomat in the US Foreign Service, passed away of natural causes in Wilmington, NC at age 81 on January 2, 2008. Ambassador Spain's life was devoted to serving his country first in the US Army as a photographer on Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff in occupied Japan and then as a career foreign service officer. More »
- George MacDonald Fraser Dead
  
  newser | NPR | Jan 3, 08 8:00 PM CST
  
  George MacDonald Fraser, the creator of the Flashman series of of historical novels, died yesterday at age 82. Fraser's widely read and beloved series of 12 novels featured a lovable, cowardly cad named Harry Flashman, first created as a minor character in the classic 19th century English novel, "Tom Brown's Schooldays." More »
December 2007
- Winningest Horse Trainer Dead at 72
  
  newser | Blood-Horse (Ky.) | Dec 26, 07 4:19 PM CST
  
  Dale Baird, the trainer with the most wins in the history of horse racing, died Sunday in a car accident at age 72. Baird racked up 9,445 wins—no other trainer even has 7,000—in a storied career at the West Virginia racetrack now known as Mountaineer. Despite his success, Baird remained a modest trainer who ran mostly claimers, reports Kentucky's Blood-Horse . More »
- Choreographer Kidd Dies at 92
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 25, 07 6:20 PM CST
  
  Choreographer Michael Kidd, creator of some of the most enduring dance steps on Broadway and in Hollywood, has died of cancer at age 92, the New York Times reports. Kidd, who won five Tonys and an honorary Oscar, is best known for his choreography in the 1954 film Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and in the musicals Finian's Rainbow , Guys and Dolls, and Destry Rides Again . More »
- Oscar Peterson Dies at 82
  
  newser | CBC (Canada) | Dec 24, 07 2:10 PM CST
  
  Legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson died last night at his home near Toronto from kidney failure, CBC News reports. He was 82. The Canadian musician made hundreds of recordings, won seven Grammys, and played alongside greats like Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, and Ella Fitzgerald. "The world has lost the world's greatest jazz player," said Peterson's hometown mayor. More »
- Billionaire Dies After Fall at Building Site
  
  newser | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Dec 21, 07 6:58 PM CST
  
  Billionaire Ken Hendricks, 66, died today of head injuries after falling through a hole in his unfinished garage roof, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. Hendricks—a high-school dropout who turned ABC Supply Co. into a national building-supply chain—apparently fell through a tarp covering an unfinished portion of an addition to his home, suffering fatal head injuries in a Rockford, Ill., hospital. More »
- Eulogy Offers Some Answers
  
  newser | Washington Post | Dec 19, 07 2:17 PM CST
  
  The questions have echoed through the ages, ever since people started dying and leaving behind loved ones able to express the sentiment: Why? Why now? Now what? Writing for the Newsweek/Washington Post website "On Faith," Sally Quinn points her readers to the extraordinary eulogy Erik Kolbell delivered last week at the funeral of 38-year-old Amy Rosenblatt Solomon. More »
- Singer, Songwriter Dan Fogelberg Dies at 56
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 17, 07 2:42 AM CST
  
  Soft rock singer-songwriter Dan Fogelberg died yesterday morning at his home in Maine after a three-year battle with prostate cancer. He was 56. Fogelberg was most popular in the '70s and early '80s with hits like "Longer," "Leader of the Band," "Same Old Lang Syne," and "The Power of Gold." His songs were known for their emotional weight and captivating story lines. More »
- Kerrigan Plotter Dies at Age 40
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 16, 07 3:31 PM CST
  
  A plotter in the 1994 attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan died this week of natural causes at age 40, the AP reports. Brian Sean Griffith, ex-bodyguard to figure-skating Olympic hopeful Tonya Harding, confessed to helping organize the attack on Kerrigan days after it happened. Griffith served 14 months and later changed his name from Shawn Eckhardt to start a new life. More »
- Ike Turner Dead at 76
  
  newser | Associated Press | Dec 12, 07 4:07 PM CST
  
  Ike Turner, who gained nearly as much fame for his pioneering rock and soul music as he did being Tina Turner's abusive husband, died at age 76 today, the AP reports. The cause of death was not immediately known. Turner teamed with Tina for a series of powerful hits in the 1960s and '70s, including "River Deep, Mountain High" and their signature cover, "Proud Mary." More »
- 3,000 Say Goodbye to Knievel
  
  newser | New West | Dec 10, 07 5:27 PM CST
  
  Thousands of mourners, including actor Matthew McConaughey and boxing champ Joe Frazier, gathered today to bid farewell to Evel Knievel, New West reports. The ceremony took place in the famed daredevil’s hometown, Butte, Mont., which marked the arrival of his coffin last night with a 3-minute salvo of fireworks. Knievel died Friday at 69. More »
- Composer Stockhausen Dead at 79
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Dec 7, 07 9:11 PM CST
  
  Karlheinz Stockhausen, the controversial composer who wrote the world's longest opera—29 hours, to be played over 7 days—has died at the age of 79, the Guardian reports. Though he inspired the Beatles and won high critical acclaim, Stockhausen also snubbed modern music trends and received little mainstream acceptance during a prolific career. More »
- ABT Ballerina Killed in Jersey Crash
  
  newser | Star-Ledger | Dec 5, 07 5:57 AM CST
  
  A dancer for the American Ballet Theater is dead and her dancer husband seriously injured after a fender-bender on an icy New Jersey highway turned fatal. Jennifer Alexander and her husband were returning from a Pennsylvania performance of The Nutcracker when they exited their vehicle after a nine-car pileup, and both were struck by oncoming cars, reports the Newark Star-Ledger. More »
- Rapper Pimp C Found Dead in Hotel Room
  
  newser | E! Online | Dec 5, 07 3:20 AM CST
  
  Rapper Pimp C, half of the chart-topping duo UGK, was found dead in his Los Angles hotel room yesterday, and authorities have found no signs of foul play. Paramedics responded to a 911 call yesterday morning to discover Pimp C, 33, dead in bed, fully clothed. No drugs or related paraphernalia were found, and it appears he was alone when he died, authorities said. More »
- Writer Hardwick Dead at 91
  
  newser | New York Times | Dec 4, 07 5:05 PM CST
  
  Elizabeth Hardwick, co-founder of the New York Review of Books , died Sunday at 91, the Times reports. The Kentucky-born Hardwick moved north in 1939—“my aim was to be a New York Jewish intellectual,” she said later—and became a critical giant. "I have always written essays as if they were examples of imaginative writing, as I believe them to be," she wrote. More »

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