Celebritydeaths.net

October 8, 2008: Eileen Herlie, 90, American actress who began her career on Broadway and finished it with a 30-year run on the TV soap opera All My Children.
Link: CNN

October 8, 2008: House Peters Jr, 92, Hollywood actor who found his greatest fame as "Mr Clean" on US television commercials.
Links: CNN

October 8, 2008: Bob Friend, 70, British journalist, of cancer. Friend was a longtime leading BBC correspondent who moved to the UK's Sky News on its launch 20 years ago.
Links: Sky News

October 1, 2008: Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician who co-founded the Kingston Trio.
Links: CNN

October 1, 2008: Rob Guest, 58, British-born Australian and New Zealand musical theatre star, of a massive stroke. The world's longest running title of Phantom of the Opera, Guest also starred in the musicals Jolson, Sound of Music and Les Miserables, and had been a pop star in NZ in the 1970s. He was playing the Wizard of Oz in Wicked at the time of his death.
Links: SMH, news.com.au, NZ Herald

September 26, 2008: Paul Newman, 83, American actor, of cancer. Regarded as one of the greats of modern cinema, he starred in films including The Sting, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke, Exodus, Hud, The Hustler, The Color of Money and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He also raised more than $250 million for charity through his Newman's Own salad dressings.
Links: CNN; Newman's Own

September 16, 2008: Norman Whitfield, 67, US Motown songwriter whose hits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone and War.
Links: CNN

September 16, 2008: Richard Wright, 65, keyboardist and founding member of British band Pink Floyd, of cancer.
Links: MTV

September 6, 2008: Anita Page, 98, US actress born Anita Pomares. She was one of the few surviving stars of the silent screen, who worked with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford and Buster Keaton. She was also the leading lady in one of the first talkie musicals, The Broadway Melody.
Links: Washington Post

September 2, 2008: Bill Melendez, 91, US animator who worked for Disney in the 1930s but found enduring fame creating television specials based on Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts comic strip.
Links: CNN

September 1, 2008: Jerry Reed, 71, US singer and actor who gained fame through films including Smokey and the Bandit alongside Burt Reynolds and The Waterboy with Adam Sandler. He also won a Grammy award in 1971 for the song When You're Hot, You're Hot.
Links: CNN

September 1, 2008: Michael Pate, 88, Australian film and television actor who had roles American series Get Smart, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Disneyland and Batman as well as the long-running Australian drama Matlock Police. He starred in the Australian film Sons of Matthew and wrote the film Tim, which starred Mel Gibson.
Links: news.com.au

September 1, 2008: Don LaFontaine, 68, US voiceover man who made 5000 movie trailers.
Links: BBC

August 31, 2008: Ken Campbell, 66, British writer, actor producer and improvisational theatre. His Ken Campbell Roadshow in the 1970s launched the careers of Bob Hoskins and Sylvester McCoy, and he was well known for his epic shows with the Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool. He also hosted TV programs including Brainspotting and Reality on the Rocks.
Links: Guardian

August 31, 2008: Ike Pappas, 75, former US newsman who witnessed and broadcast live from the scene of the fatal shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man arrested for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Links: CNN

August 27, 2008: Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor who found fame in the Channel 7 medical soap opera All Saints. He took his own life.
Links: SMH; Beyond Blue.

August 19, 2008: LeRoi Moore, 46, US musician, of complications from a farm-vehicle accident. Moore, a saxophonist, was a founding member of the Dave Mathews Band.
Links: BBC

August 17, 2008: Dave Freeman, 47, US author who co-wrote 100 Things to Do Before You Die: Travel Events You Just Can't Miss. He died when he hit his head in a fall at his home, having completed about half of his own list.
Links: CNN

August 15 2008: Jerry Wexler, 91, US music producer who coined the term "rhthym and blues" and helped make stars of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge and Ray Charles.
Links: CNN

August 12, 2008: Christie Allen, 54, British born Australian singer, of pancreatic cancer. Allen had a string of hits in 1979-1980, including the chart-topper Goosebumps.
Links: news.com.au

August 10, 2008: Bernie Mac, 50, US comedian, born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough, from complications of pneumonia. He was best known for his self-titled TV show and his role in the comedy heist film Ocean's Eleven.
Links: CNN

August 10, 2008: Isaac Hayes, 65, US soul music singer and songwriter best known for the theme to the 1971 film Shaft. In recent years, he voiced the character Chef on the South Park animated TV series but left after the show sent-up his faith, Scientology.
Links: CNN

August 10, 2008: John Esmonde, 71, British scritpwriter who co-wrote the hit TV series Please Sir!, Brush Strokes and The Good Life with Bob Larbey.
Links: Guardian

August 5, 2008: Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music star. Lindsay's hits included Silence on the Line, Armstrong and Empty Arms Hotel. He hosted the national music show Reg Lindsay's Country Homestead and was one of the few Australians to have performed at the famous Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.
Links: The Australian

August 3, 2008: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 89, Nobel Prize winning Russian writer and Soviet dissident. His works about the USSR included One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and Gulag Archipelago.
Links: Wikipedia

July 25, 2008: Randy Pausch, 47, US computer scientist, of pancreatic cancer. Knowing he was going to die, the Carnegie Mellon University academic gave a celebrated last lecture advising students to achieve their childhood dreams.
Links: CBS, CNN

July 25, 2008: Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor who specialised in comedic roles and made more than 100 films.

July 22, 2008: Estelle Getty, 84, Us actress who played the mother Sophia on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, and starred in the film Stop or My Mom Will Shoot.
Links: Hollywood Reporter

July 18, 2008: Jo Stafford, 90, US singer who was popular with servicemen during World War II and afterwards went on to sell 25 million albums.
Links: Telegraph

July 14, 2008: Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor and comedian who starred alongside Tony Hancock in Hancock's Half Hour and Terry Scott in Hugh and I.
Links: Telegraph