Celebritydeaths.net

July 1, 2009: Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress who starred as Mrs Slocombe in Are You Being Served? Best remembered for her character's jokes about her pussy, she made a guest appearance as herself in Little Britain in 2003.
Links: Guardian

July 1, 2009: Karl Malden, 97, US actor best known for his roles in the films A Streetcar Named Desire, Birdman of Alcatraz, How the West Was Won, Gypsy and On The Waterfront, and the TV series Streets of San Francisco. He was also the face of American Express for many years.
Links: BBC

June 28, 2009: Billy Mays, 50, US infommercials host who went from selling products on the Atlantic City Boardwalk to become a national celebrity.
Links: NY Daily News

June 28, 2009: Fred Travalena, 66, US comic impressionist known as "the man of a thousand faces", from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Links: NJ.com

June 27, 2009: Gale Storm, 87, US television atcor and singer. Born Josephine Owaissa Cottle, she became a star after winning a radio talent show and had her own TV sitcom, My Little Margie in the early 1950s. She also starred in The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna and had several top 10 hits.
Links: CNN

June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson, 50, US singer dubbed the King of Pop. He was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack and could not be revived. Jackson had a string of hits with the Jackson 5 in the 1970s before launching a spectacular solo career, relaeasing many multimillion-selling albums including Thriller and Bad.
Links: TMZ; CNN

June 25, 2009: Farrah Fawcett, 62, US actress who gained fame in the television series Charlie's Angles, of cancer. The former swimsuit model, once married to Lee Majors, was the partner of actor Ryan O'Neal.
Links: CNN

June 23, 2009: Ed McMahon, 86, veteran US broadcaster best known as sidekick to legendary Tonight Show host Johnny Carson. McMahon's introduction, "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny", was much imitated and parodied. He also hosted a series of TV blooper shows and appeared in many commercials.
Links: CNN

June 23, 200: Sky Saxon, 71, lead singer and bass player with influention US psychedelic rock group The Seeds.
Links: NY Times

June 14, 2009: Bob Bogle, 75, lead guitarist with 150s band The Ventures, who had hits with Walk - Don't Run and Hawaii Five-O.
Links: CNN

June 8, 2009: Habib Tanvir, 84, Indian playwright, theatre director and actor.
Links: BBC

June 3, 2009: Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor best known for playing the rival of Bruce Lee's character in the kung-fu classic Enter the Dragon.
Links: BBC

June 3, 2009: David Carradine, 72, US actor best known as star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu. More recently, he played an assassin in the Quentin Tarrantino film Kill Bill. Thai police said the actor was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room with a rope around his neck.
Links: BBC

June 3, 2009: Koko Taylor, 80, multi award-winning US blues singer best known for her signature tune Wang Dang Doodle.
Links: CNN

May 31, 2009: Danny La Rue, 81, drag queen born Daniel Patrick Carroll in Ireland. He was famous for impersonations of Marlene Dietrich, Zsa Zsa Gabor and even Margaret Thatcher, toured the world, was feted by royalty, wrote a best-selling autobiography and once ran his own nightclub in London's Hanover Square.
Links: Guardian; Telegraph

May 31, 2009: Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, popular Russian stage and screen actor. He starred in 70 films and voiced many animated characters.
Links: Russia IC

May 31, 2009: Millvina Dean, 97, the last survivor of the Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912. She was nine weeks old at the time of the disaster, in which her father was one of the 1517 vicitms.
LInks: BBC

May 27, 2009: Paul Sharratt, 75, British born entertainer and producer who worked for many years at Channel 9 in Brisbane on and the Gold Coast before starting a successful production company in LA. Sharratt was best known in Queensland for his TV variety shows, for running the Tropicarnival festival and for chairing popular music hall performances.
Links: goldcoast.com.au

May 20, 2009: Lucy Gordon, 29, British actress and model who had roles in the films The Four Feathers and Spider-Man 3. She was found dead in an apartment in Paris.
Links: Daily Mail

May 20, 2009: Oleg Yankovsky, 65, actor who was a giant of Soviet and Russian cinema, of cancer. He made 70 films over more than 40 years.
Links: Novosti

May 18, 2009: Wayne Allwine, 62, American actor and sound editor, of complications from diabetes. He was the voice of Mickey Mouse in the films Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Mickey's Christmas Carol, and at Disney theme parks. Allwine was only the third actor to voice Mickey, after Walt Disney and Jimmy MacDonald.
Links: BBC

May 15, 2009: Wayman Tisdale, 44, US basketball star and jazz musician, of cancer.
Links: CNN

May 15, 2009: Charles "Bud" Tingwell, 86, Australian actor who appeared in post-war British and Australian films, television series including Homicide and the hit Australian film The Castle. He also voiced characters for Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and starred in the acclaimed drama Changi.
Links: news.com.au

May 13, 2009: Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist, author, editor (of Harper's Bazaar) and game-show panellist best known for her appearances on the BBC radio series My Word alongside Denis Norden and Frank Muir.
Links: Telegraph

May 4, 2009: Dom DeLuise, comedic US actor best known for his roles in the films Cannonball Run, Silent Movie, Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles. He also wrote cookbooks and children's books.
Links: CNN

May 2, 2009: Marilyn French, 79, US feminist and author of the bestselling The Women's Room.
Links: Washington Post

May 1, 2009: Danny Gans, 52, US comic and impressionist who was named Las Vegas entertainer of the year 11 times.
Links: CNN

April 28, 2009: Vern Gosdin, 74, American country singer known as "The Voice". His hits included Set 'em Up Joe, I Can Tell by the Way You Dance, I'm Still Crazy and a duet with Emmylou Harris, Yesterday's Gone.
Links: LA Times

April 25, 2009: Bea Arthur, 86, US stage and screen actress best known for her roles in the TV sitcoms Maude and The Golden Girls. Born Bernice Frankel, she won Emmy awards for both series, and she won a Tony award for her supporting role in the Broadway production of Mame.
Links: LA Times

April 22, 2009: Ron Brady, 74, first newsreader for ABC Television in Queensland, Australia, of cancer.
Links: 612ABC