Notables lost in 2004

[Dr Mordrid]

Granted this is incomplete, but quite a list anyhow;

Alan King (comedian/actor/producer)
Alistair Cooke (host "Masterpiece Theater", "Letter from America")
Ann Miller (actress/dancer)
Arthur Hailey (writer; "Hotel", "Airport")
Artie Shaw (bandleader)
Art James (first host "Concentration")

Betty Oliphant (founder National Ballet School)
Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan (no explanation necessary)

Caitlin Clarke (actress/acting teacher; Valerian in "Dragonslayer")
Carl Mydans (photographer Life Magazine; "McArthurs Return" etc.)
Carrie Snodgress (actress)
Christopher "Superman" Reeve (actor/activist)
Cy Coleman (composer)
Czeslaw Milosz (Polish poet & Nobel laureate)

Dame Alicia Markova (co-founder English National Ballet)
Darrel "Dimebag" Abbot (guitarist of Pantera)
Edd Kemmer (actor; Buzz Cody in "Space Patrol")

Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (author "On Death and Dying")
Elmer Bernstein (composer)
Emiel Petrone (pioneered development of CD and DVD)
Estee Lauder (makeup empire)

Fay Wray (actress "King Kong")
Francesco Scavullo (photographer)
Francis Crick, PhD (co-discoverer DNA, Nobel Prize for medicine)
Francoise Sagan (writer, "A Certain Smile")
Fred Ebb (lyracist; wrote words for "Caberet" and "Chicago")

Helmut Newton (photographer Vogue, Elle etc.)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (photographer - French realism)
Howard Keel (actor, singer; "Kiss Me Kate", "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers")

Iris Chang (author "Rape of Nanking")
Isabel Sanford (Weezie of "The Jeffersons")

Jack Paar (former host of "Tonight Show")
Jacques Derrida (founder of deconstructionism)
Jan Berry (singer "Jan and Dean")
Jan Sterling (actress)
Janet Leigh (actress, shower scene in "Psycho" & mother of Jamie Lee Curtis)
Jerry Goldsmith (composer)
Jerry Orbach (actor; "Law and Order", "Dirty Dancing")
Jerry Scoggins (sang "Ballad of Jed Clampett")
John Drew Barrymore (actor; father of Drew Barrymore)
John Peel (UK DJ and voiceover artist)
Johnny Ramone (rocker)
Joseph James Zimmerman (invented the answering machine)
Julia Child (cooking host)
June Taylor (choreographer, started "June Taylor Dancers")

Laura Branigan (sang "Gloria", "How Am I Supposed To Live Without You?")
Laurance Rockefeller (venture capitalist/philanthropist)
L. Gordon Cooper (astronaut Mercury & Gemini)

Margaret Hassan (head of Care in Iraq)
Marlon Brando (actor; "Streetcar Named Desire")
Max Faget (engineer; led design team for Gemini spacecraft)
Mercedes McCambridge (actress; voice of Satan in "The Exorcist")

Norris McWhirter (co-founder Guinness Book of Records)

Pat Tillman (football player/soldier)
Paul Klebnikov (journalist, asassinated for Russian Mafia expose's)
Paul "Red" Adair (oil well fire expert; subject of John Wayne movie "Hellfighters")
Paul Winfield (actor; "Sounder", "Terminator", "Wrath of Kahn")
Peggy Ryan (actress)
Peter Ustinov (actor/writer)
Philippe de Broca (French director; "King of Hearts", "Cartouche"
Pierre Salinger (journalist; former Kennedy press secretary)

Ray Charles (musician)
Reggie White (football player)
Richard Avedon (one of the last great B&W fashion photographers)
Richard Biggs (actor; Dr. Steven Franklin on "Babylon 5")
Robert Merrill (opera baritone for NYC's Metropolitan Opera)
Rodney Dangerfield
Ronald Reagan (actor, President of the US)
Ron O'Neal (actor)
Russ Meyer (skin flick director)

Spalding Gray (actor/writer)
Susan Sontag (writer/activist; "On Photography")
Syd Hoff (cartoonist The New Yorker)

Terry Melcher (record producer; wrote "Kokomo", son of Doris Day)
Tim Choate (actor; Zathras on "Babylon 5")
Tony Randall (actor/comedian; "The Odd Couple")

Uta Hagen (actress/teacher)

Vaugn Meader (comedian; most known for JFK impersonation)
Virginia Grey (actress)

William H. Pickering (rocketeer; manager "Mariner" missions)

Yasser Arafat (terrorist, PLO leader)

Feel free to add on to the list....

Dr. Mordrid

[Brian R.]

Ray Anthracite - my best friend and fine MD/pulmonologist

[Brian Ellis]

I can think of a few that I feel merit being added to the list, but unfortunately are still living Some of the African heads of stste to start with.

Note I am starting the New Year with loads of Christian charity