The Recently Dead List 2008
Entries in bold print were on someones list. Click on a name for more information
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George MacDonald Fraser | Novelist. | ||
Sir John Harvey-Jones | Former chairman of ICI | ||
Sir Edmund Hillary | First person to climb Everest. | ||
Brad Renfro | American actor. | ||
Bobby Fischer | Former world chess champion. | ||
John Stewart | Singer/songwriter. | ||
Heath Ledger | Australian actor. | ||
Jeremy Beadle | TV presenter. Co-hosted Game for a Laugh | ||
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | Indian guru and one time friend of the Beatles. | ||
Roy Scheider | American actor. | ||
Steve Fossett | Adventurer. Flew around the world by balloon with Richard Branson. | ||
Norman Smith | Legendary record producer. | ||
Carol Barnes | ITV Newsreader. | ||
Mark Speight | Childrens TV presenter. | ||
Anthony Minghella | Writer and director. Directed the film 'The English Patient' | ||
Arthur C Clarke | Science fiction author and inventor of the geostationary satellite. | ||
Paul Scofield | Actor. Won an oscar for the film 'A Man for all Seasons'. | ||
Brian Wilde | Actor - played Foggy in 'Last of the Summer Wine' | ||
Charlton Heston | Actor and gun nut. Appeared in the original Planet of the Apes film | ||
Edward Lorenz | Scientist. Pioneer of Chaos Theory. | ||
Humphrey Lyttleton | Jazz musician and compere of Radio 4's | ||
Albert Hofmann | Swiss chemist. Inventor of LSD. | ||
Sidney Pollack | Film director/producer and occasional actor. | ||
Harvey Korman | Comedy actor. | ||
Yves Saint Laurent | Fashion Designer | ||
Bo Diddley | Early Rock and Roll musician. Real name Ellas Otha Bates. | ||
Stan Winston | Film special effects guy. | ||
Cyd Charisse | Dancer and film Actress from the 50s | ||
George Carlin | American Comedian and actor | ||
Estelle Getty | Actress and star of The Golden Girls | ||
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Russian writer. | ||
Isaac Hayes | Singer - best known for the Theme from Shaft | ||
Bill Cotton | Former controller of BBC1. | ||
Andre Young Jr. | Son of Dr Dre. | ||
Geoffrey Perkins | Producer on various radio and TV comedy. | ||
Ken Campbell | Actor. Best known for playing Alf Garnett's neighbour in | ||
Don LaFontaine | Voiceover artist for films and adverts. | ||
Rick Wright | Founder member of Pink Floyd. | ||
Paul Newman | Film actor - starred in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | ||
Levi Stubbs | Lead singer of the Four Tops. | ||
Michael Crichton | Novelist. Wrote the Jurassic Park books. | ||
Mitch Mitchell | Drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. | ||
Reg Varney | Actor. Appeared in 'On The Buses' in the 1970s | ||
V. P. Singh | Former Prime Minister of India. | ||
Oliver Postgate | Creator (or co-creator) of many favourite children's tv shows | ||
Bob Spiers | Director of TV comedy programmes. | ||
Kathy Staff | Actress. Real name Minnie Higginbottom. Best remembered for playing Norah Batty | ||
Harold Pinter | British Playwright. | ||
Eartha Kitt | Singer and actress. |
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