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February 6, 2010: Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician. As a young man he played clarinet with the likes of Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, and later became a film and television music composer. He often accompanied his wife, singer Cleo Laine.
Link: Jazzwise

February 5, 2008: Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor who starred in the films School for Scoundrels and I'm Alright Jack and on television as the eponymous hero in Lord Peter Wimsey and Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster.
Link: BBC

February 4, 2010: Frances Reid, 95, US actress who for more than 40 years played the matriarch, Alice Horton, in the long-running TV soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Link: EW

February 3, 2010: John McCallum, 91, Australian stage and screen actor and producer who created the iconic TV series Skippy, about a bush kangaroo. McCallum often worked with his wife, actress Googie Withers.
Links: ABC, Courier-Mail, Telegraph

February 1, 2010: David Brown, 93, US stage and screen producer whose films included The Sting, Jaws, Driving Miss Daisy and The Verdict.
Link: NY Times

February 1, 2010: Justin Mentell, 27, US actor who starred in Boston Legal and the film G-Force, in a car accident.
Link: People

January 31, 2010: Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician whose band OMC (Otara Millionaires Club) had a 1995 hit with How Bizarre.
Link: stuff.co.nz

January 27, 2010: JD Salinger, 91, reclusive American novelist who wrote the 1951 classic The Catcher in the Rye.
Link: BBC

January 27, 2010: Zelda Rubinstein, 75, US actress best known for playing the psychic in the 1982 film Poltergeist and its two sequels.
Link: BBC

January 24, 2010: Pernell Roberts, 81, US actor best known for his roles in the TV series Bonanza, as Adam Cartwright, and as the title character in the M*A*S*H spin-off Trapper John MD.
Link: EW

Janaury 24, 2010: Dave Grant, 50, Australian standup comedian, of pancreatic cancer.
Link: Chortle

January 22, 2009: Jean Simmons, 80, US actress who starred in the films Spartacus, Hamlet, The Robe and Guys and Dolls, and the miniseries The Thorn Birds.
Link: LA Times

January 22, 2010: James Mitchell, 89, American stage and screen actor who was a long-time star of TV soap opera All My Children.
Link: boston.com

January 19, 2010: Kate McGarrigle , 63, Canadian folk singer who sang in a popular 1970s duo with her sister Anna, and was the mother of singer-songwriters Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
Link: BBC

January 19, 2010: Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV contestant, of breast cancer. She came fourth in the Survivor: Palau program.
Link: EW

January 17, 2010: Erich Segal, 72, US Classics professor who became the author of the novel Love Story and the writer of the screenplay for The Beatles' film Yellow Submarine.
Link: Telegraph

January 14, 2009: Bobby Charles, 79, US "swamp pop" songwriter, born Robert Charles Guidry, who penned hits for Fats Domino and Bill Haley and His Comets. His chart-toppers included See You Later Aligator and Walking to New Orleans.
Link: BBC

January 13, 2010: Teddy Pendergrass , 59, American soul singer.
Link: ABC

January 13, 2010: Jay Reatard, 29, US garage-punk musician, born Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, who recorded as a solo artist and with the bands The Reatards and Lost Sounds.
Link: MTV

January 11, 2010: Eric Rohmer, 89, French filmmaker whose works included Le Genou de Claire (Claire's Knee) and Ma nuit chez Maud (My Night at Maud's).
Link: Tribune

January 10, 2010: Mina Bern, 98, Poland-born, New York-based Yiddish actress known for her cabaret singing and comedy performances.
Link: NY Times

January 8, 2010: Art Clokey, 88, American animator, born Arthur Charles Farrington, who created the popular children's character Gumby.
Link: NY Times

January 8, 2010: Monica Maughan, Australian stage and screen actress best known for her roles in a 1980s touring production of The Importance of Being Earnest and in the TV shows Prisoner and The Damnation Of Harvey McHugh.
Link: ABC

January 4, 2010: Roberto Sanchez, 64, popular Argentine singer known as Sandro or El Gitano. He was said to be the first Latino artist to sell-out Madison Square Garden in New York.
Link: CNN

January 1, 2010: Jean Carroll, 98, pioneering Paris-born American comedian. Born Celine Zeigman, she began her career in vaudeville and became known as "the female Bob Hope".
Link: Chortle

December 31, 2009: William "Billy" May, US-born Australian dancer and theatrical producer whose credits included the Walking With Dinosaurs arena show.
Link: Undercover

December 30, 2009: Rowland S Howard, 50, Australian guitarist with the band The Birthday Party, of liver cancer.
Link: news.com.au

December 26, 2009: Yves Rocher, 79, French cosmetics tycoon described by French President Nicolas Sarkozy as "a great French industrialist, inventor of plant-based cosmetics and pioneer of mail order retail".

December 25, 2009: Vic Chesnutt, 45, US singer-songwriter whose songs were also performed by Madonna, the Indigo Girls, Smashing Pumpkins an REM. Paralyzed since an accident at age 18, he reportedly took an overdose of muscle relaxant.
Links: LA Times; Times