Celebritydeaths.net

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

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

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

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 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

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 24, 2009: George Michael, 70, popular US television sportscaster with Washington DC station WRC TV whose show The George Michael Sports Machine was syndicated across the US for 27 years.
Link: CNN

December 20, 2009: Brittany Murphy, 32, US actress who starred in Clueless and Sin City, and voiced characters on King of the Hill and Happy Feet.
Link: TMZ

November 7, 2009: Joe Maross, 86, US stage, TV and film actor. He featured in many series including The Rockford Files, Perry Mason, The Twilight Zone and Murder She Wrote.
Links: Variety

October 21, 2009: Yoko Minamida , 76, Japanese film and television star.
Links: Variety

October 19, 2009: Vic Mizzy, 93, US songwriter who composed the theme tunes to the television shows Green Acres and The Addams Family. He joked that he bought his Bel Air mansion with a couple of snaps of his fingers.
Links: NPR

October 13, 2009: Al Martino, 82, US singer and actor, born Alfred Cini, whose most famous screen role was in The Godfather. In the UK, his song Here in My Heart was the NME's first number one hit, in 1952.
Links: Guardian

October 13, 2009: Daniel Melnick, Hollywood producer behind hits including Straw Dogs, Network< Kramer vs Kramer and Midnight Express and the TV series Get Smart.
Links: Telegraph

September 29, 2009: Father James Murray, 82, Catholic priest and writer who was the long-erving relgious affairs editor of The Australian.
Links: The Australian

September 24, 2009: Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer. He formed the Howard Morrison Quartet in the 1950s and remained a leading concert and television performer for decades.
Links: NZ Herald

September 4, 2009: Rick Nattrass, 59, Australian environmentalist and broadcaster, of a heart attack.
Links: ABC

July 29, 2009: Leela Naidu, 69, Bengali actress who starred in Hindu and English films, including The Householder, was once Miss India, apeared in Vogue and was named one of the 10 most beautiful women in the world.
Links: WikiPedia

July 19, 2009: Frank McCourt, 78, late-blooming, Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish-American author whose books included Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. He and his brother Malachy also performed a popular stage act, A Couple of Blackguards.
Links: Telegraph

July 14, 2009: Dallas McKennon, 89, US actor and voice artist who was heard in the Walt Disney films The Lady and the Tramp, One Hundred and One Dalmatians and Mary Poppins. He also gave voice to cereal commercials for Kellogg.
Links: Telegraph

July 4, 2009: Steve McNair, 36, former US NFL quarterback with the Tennessee Titans, murdered by his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi, 20, who then killed herself.
Links: NY Times

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 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

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

March 13, 2009: Andrew Martin, 33, former professional wrestler with World Wrestling Entertainment. Known as The Punisher, he was found dead in his apartment in Tampa, Flordia. Police said there was no sign of foul play.
Links: news.com.au

February 7, 2009: Brian Naylor, 78, longtime television newsreader for Australian's Nine and Seven networks. Naylor, who began on radio and once hosted the Brian and the Juniors young talent show, and his wife Moiree were among at least 135 victims of bushfires in rural Victoria.
Links: Herald Sun; ABC

January 29, 2009: John Martyn, 60, British singer and songwriter, born Iain David McGeachy, who worked with the likes of Eric Clapton, Phil Collins and David Gilmour.
Links: Daily Telegraph

January 16, 2009: John Mortimer, 85, British lawyer and author of the Rumpole books, which became a successful TV series. He also adapted Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited for television. As a barrister, Mortimer was involved in several high profile human rights and civil liberties cases including the Lady Chatterley's Lover and Oz obscenity trials.
Links: BBC

January 15, 2009: Angela Morley, 84, award-winning British conductor and composer of film, radio and TV scores. She was born Walter (Wally) Scott but had a sex change in middle age. Her work included music for The Goon Show, The Slipper and The Rose, and Watership Down. She also worked extensively with Star Wars composer John Williams.
Links: Telegraph