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Saturday, January 20, 2007

Iwao Takamoto

Animator Iwao Takamoto died on 1/8/2007 at age 81. He died of heart failure. Although Takamoto did a great deal of animation work recognizable to Americans - including some work on Disney animated features like Cinderella and 101 Dalmations, he is perhaps most famous for animating the Great Dane... Sign in to see full entry.

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Bam Bam Bigelow

I heard on a Chicago-related mailing list that professional wrestler Bam Bam Bigelow - who wrestled with a variety of different professional groups, like WWE and ECW, over his 20-year career - died at age 45. No cause of death is yet known, as the information is relatively fresh. He is perhaps most... Sign in to see full entry.

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Denny Doherty

The average reader of this obituary will probably be baffled at the name Denny Doherty; he is the least famous member of the 1960s harmony-rock group The Mamas and The Papas. (Colleagues Michelle and John Phillips, and "Mama" Cass Elliot, outshone him.) He died on 1/19/2007 at age 66, after a brief... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Art Buchwald

Art Buchwald, political humorist, died late on 1/17/2007 at age 81. Although no cause of death has beeen specified in any of the obituaries I've read, he did have a history of kidney failure during the past year. In fact, during 2006, Buchwald was referred for hospice treatment due to kidney... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Carlo Ponti

Carlo Ponti, producer of over 100 films, has died at age 94, on 1/10/2007. Although he made his living as a film producer and was considerably wealthier than his more-famous wife, he was perhaps best known as Mr. Sophia Loren. He discovered her in 1950, when she was a mere fifteen years old (and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Yvonne De Carlo

Actress Yvonne De Carlo died at age 84 of natural causes on Monday, 1/8/2007. At the time of her death, she resided at what one obituary called "the Motion Picture and Television facility in suburban Los Angeles." She was perhaps best known, at least to Baby Boomers, as Lily Munster, from the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, January 6, 2007

Nikki Bacharach

You may not have ever heard of Nikki Bacharach, but Baby Boomers will know her parents - composer Burt Bacharach and his former wife, actress Angie Dickinson. CNN says that she committed suicide recently at age 40. She had Asperger's disorder, widely reported in the media as a form of autism. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, January 5, 2007

Darrent Williams

Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams lost his life in a drive-by shooting on New Year's Day, 2007. I was unable to find out just how old he was in doing research for this obituary. This year was apparently his second as an NFL player. In 2005, he missed a significant number of games due to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Lamar Hunt

Lamar Hunt, who helped shape the modern-day NFL and is credited with coining the term Super Bowl, died in mid-December 2006 at age 74, of prostate cancer. He helped found the American Football League over four decades ago (as of this writing) after the NFL refused to sell him a franchise. In... Sign in to see full entry.

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Dana Reeve

Dana Reeve may not be as familar a name as that of her late husband Christopher (who starred in several Superman movies during the late 1970s and early 1980s), but she was an actress in her own right. After her husband broke his neck in a riding accident (becoming paralyzed), she became an activist... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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