The Recently Dead List 2012

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Celebrity
Died
Age
Comments
Adam Yauch
4 may 2012
47
Member of the Beastie Boys.
Whitney Houston
11 feb 2012
48
Singer who also had success with the film The Bodyguard.
Sally Ride
23 jul 2012
61
First female American astonaut in space.
Jocky Wilson
24 mar 2012
62
Darts Player. Was world champion in 1982 and 1989.
Robin Gibb
20 may 2012
62
Member of the Bee Gees.
Donna Summer
17 may 2012
63
Singer
Davy Jones
29 feb 2012
66
Singer with The Monkees.
Terry Nutkins
6 sep 2012
66
Naturalist and TV presenter.
Geoffrey Hughes
27 jul 2012
68
Actor. Played Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street
Tony Scott
19 aug 2012
68
Film director and brother of Ridley Scott.
Nora Ephron
26 jun 2012
71
Screenwriter responsible for When Harry Met Sally
Jon Lord
16 jul 2012
71
Founder member of the band Deep Purple.
Bill Tarmey
9 nov 2012
71
Actor. Played Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street.
Maeve Binchy
29 jul 2012
72
Novelist.
Jam Master Jay
20 jan 2012
73
Singer
Reginald Hill
12 jan 2012
75
Author of the Dalziel and Pascoe novels.
Philip Madoc
5 mar 2012
77
Actor.
Alex Karras
10 oct 2012
77
American Football player turned actor.
Norman Schwarzkopf
27 dec 2012
78
General in charge of the Iraq war/liberation of Kuwait in 1991.
Larry Hagman
21 nov 2012
81
Actor best remembered for playing J R Ewing in Dallas.
Dick Clarke
18 apr 2012
82
American TV presenter.
Derek Jameson
12 dec 2012
82
Newspaper editor and radio presenter.
Bob Holness
6 jan 2012
83
Presenter of the successful student quiz show Blockbusters.
Jack Tramiel
8 apr 2012
83
Founder of Commodore
Maurice Sendak
8 may 2012
83
Author of Where the Wild Things are
Gerry Anderson
26 dec 2012
83
Creator of the TV show Thunderbirds
Vidal Sassoon
9 may 2012
84
Celebrity hairdresser.
Sir Alastair Burnet
20 jul 2012
84
ITN Newsreader
Andy Williams
25 sep 2012
84
Singer.
William Rees-Mogg
29 dec 2012
84
Former editor of The Times newspaper.
Frank Carson
22 feb 2012
85
Comedian
Sergio Pininfarina
3 jul 2012
85
Italian car designer.
Martin Fleischmann
3 aug 2012
85
Half of the 'Fleischmann and Pons' duo of cold fusion chemists
Robert Sherman
5 mar 2012
86
Songwriter.
Andy Griffith
3 jul 2012
86
American TV actor
Gore Vidal
31 jul 2012
86
Writer/Novelist and social/political comentator.
Earl Scruggs
28 mar 2012
88
Bango player who recorded the Beverly Hillbillies theme
Jim Marshall
5 apr 2012
88
Creator of the Marshall range of amplifiers.
Eric Sykes
4 jul 2012
89
Comedy writer and actor.
Max Bygraves
31 aug 2012
89
Singer
Patrick Moore
9 dec 2012
89
TV astronomer and presenter of The Sky at Night
Chaleo Yoovidhya
17 mar 2012
90
Creator of the Red Bull energy drink.
Jack Klugman
24 dec 2012
90
Actor. Appeared in the TV series Quincy
Bert Weedon
20 apr 2012
91
Guitarist whose Play In A Day book taught millions how to play guitar.
Ray Bradbury
5 jun 2012
91
Science fiction author.
Hal David
1 sep 2012
91
Songwriter whose songs included Walk On By
Clive Dunn
7 nov 2012
92
Actor famous for appearing in Dads Army
Ravi Shankar
11 dec 2012
92
Sitar player and friend of The Beatles.
Ernest Borgnine
8 jul 2012
95
Veteran actor and star of many films and tv series.
Herbert Lom
27 sep 2012
95
Actor. Appeared in the Pink Panther films
Yitzhak Shamir
30 jun 2012
96
Former terrorist who became Prime Minister of Israel.
Sir Bernard Lovell
6 aug 2012
98
Astronomer. Founded the Jodrell Bank radio observatory.

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