Celebritydeaths.net

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

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

January 22, 2009: Jean Simmons, 80, US actress who starred in the films Spartacus, Hamlet, The Robe and Guys and Dolls, and the miniseries The Thorn Birds.
Link: LA Times

January 17, 2010: Erich Segal, 72, US Classics professor who became the author of the novel Love Story and the writer of the screenplay for The Beatles' film Yellow Submarine.
Link: Telegraph

January 4, 2010: Roberto Sanchez, 64, popular Argentine singer known as Sandro or El Gitano. He was said to be the first Latino artist to sell-out Madison Square Garden in New York.
Link: CNN

December 20, 2009: Arnold Stang, 91, US actor who provided the voice for the title character in the cartoon series Top Cat. He also appeared in the films The Man with the Golden Arm and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad,World.
Link: Examiner

December 4, 2009: Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, renowned Russian film actor.

December 3, 2009: Richard Todd, 90, Irish-British stage and screen actor born Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, best known as star of The Dam Busters.
Links: Wikipedia

October 22, 2009: Soupy Sales, 83, US slapstick comedian, born Milton Supman. On his eponymous television show he specialised in cream-pie fights with celebrities including Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, Mickey Rooney, Sammy Davis Jr and Burt Lancaster. He continued to work in TV and films until 2005.
Links: LA Times

October 4, 2009: Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentine singer known as the "voice of Latin America". A Goodwill Ambassador for Unicef, she was the winner of several Latin Grammys.
Links: CNN

September 27, 2009: Wiliam Safire, 79, US conservative commentator and columnist who wrote the New York Times magazine column On Language for 30 years. He was also a speechwriter and aide to president Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Links: BBC

September 16, 2009: Mary Travers, 72, US singer with popular 1960s folk group Peter, Paul and Mary. Their hits included If I Had a Hammer and Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
Links: NY Times

September 15, 2009: Patrick Swayze, 57, US actor best known for the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and the recent TV series The Beast, of cancer.
Links: TMZ, BBC

August 11, 2009: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, sister of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Edward and Robert Kennedy, champion of the disabled and founder of the Special Olympics.
Links: CNN

August 5, 2009: Budd Schulberg, 95, US writer whose works included the screenplay for On the Waterfront and the novel What Makes Sammy Run?
Links: NY Times

August 1, 2009: Naomi Sims, 61, from breast cancer. She broke the clour barrier to become America's first black supermodel.
Links: CNN

July 24, 2009: Harry Towb, 83, British actor whose most recent role was in EastEnders. He had roles in The 39 Steps, Patton, Digby the Biggest Dog in the World, Carry On at Your Convenience and The Most Fertile Man In Ireland.
Links: BBC

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

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

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

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 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

March 15, 2009: Ron Silver, 62, US actor and political activist. Silver starred in the film Reversal of Fortune and in the TV series The West Wing.
Links: CNN

December 13, 2008: Kathy Staff, 80, British actress, born Minnie Higginbottom, who played Nora Batty in the long-running sitcom Last of the Summer Wine. She also had roles in Open All Hours, Crossroads and Coronation Street.
Links: Guardian