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December 7, 2011: Jerry Robinson, 89, US comic-book artist whose creations included Batman's sidekick, Robin. He is also credited with creating arch villain The Joker, although Batman creator Bob Kane disputed that.
Link: BBC

November 27, 2011: Ken Russell, 84, British film director known for Tommy, Gothic, Altered States and Women In Love.
Link: Wikipedia

November 12, 2011: Peter Roebuck, 55, English cricketer with Somerset county who became a respected newspaper writer and commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was found dead at a hotel in Newlands, South Africa.
Link: ABC

November 4, 2011: Andy Rooney, 92, US broadcaster who was a fixture on the CBS current affairs program 60 Minutes for 33 years.
Link: NY Times

September 10, 2011: Cliff Robertson, 88, US actor who won the best actor Oscar for Charly, but was black-listed by Hollywood after exposing corrupt studio accounting practices. His films included PT-109, J.W. Coop and Spider-Man.
Link: Telegraph

August 5, 2011: Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born US actor, the son of Anthony Quinn, and star of the film Platoon. He most recently voiced a character in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Link: Wikipedia

June 7, 2011: Martin Rushent, 63, British music producer who worked with bands including Human League, XTC, The Stranglers, The Go-Go's, Fleetwood Mac and T Rex.
Link: Guardian

May 8, 2011: Lionel Rose, 62, Australian boxer who became world bantamweight champion in 1968. He was also the first indigenous Australian of the Year.
Link: news.com.au

April 11, 2011: Peter Ruehl, US-born Australian newspaper columnist whose work appeared for many years in the Australian Financial Review.
Link: The Australian

February 28, 2011: Jane Russell, 89, US actress best known for her role alongside Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. She also famously had a bra designed for her by reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. In later life, she became an evangelical Christian.
Link: SMH

February 4, 2011: Peggy Rea, 89, US stage and screen character actress best known for TV series including The Red Skelton Show, The Waltons, Grace Under Fire and The Dukes of Hazzard.
Link: Variety

January 27, 2011: Julie Ryles, 53, Australian former child star, singer and dancer who appeared on TV's Young Talent Time, of progressive subcortical gliosis.
Link: TV Tonight

January 6?, 2011: Geoff Raymond, 89, Australian newsreader who worked for commercial television and then the ABC until the mid-1980s.
Link: ABC

January 4, 2011: Gerry Rafferty, 64, Scottish singer-songwriter best known for Stuck in the Middle With You, with Stealers Wheel, and his haunting solo hit Baker Street.
Link: Telegraph

December 24, 2010: Roy Rothschild Neuberger, 107, US money manager and modern art collector.
Link: Wikipedia

December 17, 2010: Lina Romay, 91, US singer and actor who sang in the 1940s with the Xavier Cugat orchestra before a brief career as a film and TV actress. She later became a horse-race announcer.
Link: NPR

October 11, 2010: Claire Rayner, 79, British newspaper "agony aunt", broadcaster, former nurse, humanist and patients' rights campaigner.
Link: Guardian

June 24, 2010 Pete Quaife, 66, British musician who played bass with 60s band The Kinks. He later moved to Canada and worked as a graphic artist.
Link Variety

June 12, 2010: Egon Ronay, Hungarian-born restaurateur and pioneering food critic who helped modernise British cuisine.
Link: Independent

May 16, 2010: Ronnie James Dio, 67, US heavy rock singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne at the helm of Black Sabbath. Born Ronald James Padavona, he died of stomach cancer. Before joining Sabbath in 1980, he performed with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow.
Link: BBC

May 2, 2010: Lynn Redgrave, 67, British actress and member of well known theatre dynasty, of cancer. Her films included Georgy Girl and Gods and Monsters.
Links: Guardian

April 9, 2010: Meinhardt Raabe, 94, actor best known for playing the Munchkin coroner in 1939's The Wizard of Oz. In his big scene, he declared the Wicked Witch "really most sincerely dead".
Link: EW

April 6, 2010: Corin Redgrave, 70, political activist and member of famous British acting dynasty; brother of Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. His films The Charge of the Light Brigade and Four Weddings and a Funeral, and he was a star of both the West End and Broadway stage.
Link: Times

April 1, 2010: Henry Edward Roberts, 68, US scientist known as the "father of the personal computer". His Altair 8800 machine inspired Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates, who wrote software for it, and Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak.
Links: 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

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

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

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".