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Corey Haim

March 10, 2010: Corey Haim, 38, Canadaina born Hollywood actor, of an apparent drug overdose. Haim starred in hot teen films of the 1980s including The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Lucas, often alongside Corey Feldman with whom he starred in a 2008 reality TV series The Two Coreys.
Links: LA Times

Michael Foot

March 3, 2010: Michael Foot, 96, former British Labour party leader. He was first elected to Parliament in 1945 and led the party from 1980-83.
Link: Telegraph

Winston Churchill

March 2, 2010: Winston Churchill, 69, British journalist and Conservative MP, the grandson and namesake of the World War II prime minister.
Links: Times

Kristian Digby

March 1, 2010: Kristian Digby, 32, British TV host and filmmaker, best known for That Gay Show and property program To Buy or Not to Buy.
Link: BBC

Martin Benson

February 28, 2010: Martin Benson, 91, British actor and producer who starred in the films Goldfinger, Exodus and Cleopatra and the television series Dangerman and Last of the Summer Wine.
Link: Times

Wendy Toye

Febraury 27, 2010: Wendy Toye, 92, British dancer, choreographer and filmmaker.
Link: BBC

Andrew Koenig

February, 2010: Andrew Koenig, 41, star of US sitcom Growing Pains and son of Star Trek actor Walter Koenig. He went missing on February 14 and his body was found in a Vancouver, Canada park on February 25.
Link: CNN

Jason Wood

February 20, 2010: Jason Wood, 38, British comedian, muscial impressionist and star of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing.
Link: Chortle

Alexander Haig

February 20, 2010: Alesander Haig, 85, US Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan.
Link: Times

Kathryn Grayson

February 17, 2010: Kathryn Grayson, 88, Hollywood actress known for her beauty and singing voice. She starred in box-offices hits including Show Boat, Anchors Aweigh and Kiss Me Kate.
Link: Washington Post.

Lionel Jeffries

February 18, 2010: Lionel Jeffries, 83, British actor whose films included St Trinian's. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Nun's Story. He appeared in the TV series Woof!, Inspector Morse and Tom, Dick and Harriet, and directed films including The Railway Children, Wombling Free and The Water Babies.
Link: Herald Scotland

Ruby Hunter

February 17, 2010: Ruby Hunter, 54, indigenous Australian singer/songwriter who often performed with her lifelong partner, Archie Roach.
Link: Courier-Mail

Doug Fieger

February 14, 2010: Doug Fieger, 57, singer with US band The Knack, after a long battle with cancer. The band had a huge hit in 1979 with the song My Sharona, which was later featured in the 1991 film Reality Bites.
Link: EW

Dick Francis

February 14, 2010: Dick Francis, 89, UK-born former jockey who became a novelist best known for his racetrack-set tales of murder and intrigue.
Link: Times

Alexander McQueen

February 11, 2010: Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, found dead in his London flat.
Links: The Sun

Charlie Wilson

February 10, 2010: Charlie Wilson, 76, former Texas congressman whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the USSR was chronicled in the Tom Hanks film Charlie Wilson's War.
Link: Houston Chronicle

Walter Frederick Morrison

February 9, 2010: Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor whose Pluto Platter flying-disc toy went on to become a global phenomenon under the name Frisbee.
Link: Guardian

Nina Blanchard

February 7, 2010: Nina Blanchard, 91, Hollywood-based model agency boss whose clients included Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, Shari Belafonte, Rene Russo, Cristina Ferrare and Catherine Oxenberg.
Link: LA Times

John Dankworth

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

Ian Carmichael

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

Frances Reid

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

John McCallum

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

David Brown

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

Justin Mentell

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

Pauly Fuemana

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

JD Salinger

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

Zelda Rubinstein

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

Pernell Roberts

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

Dave Grant

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

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