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November 1, 2008: Yma Sumac, 86, popular US-based South American 1950s soprano known as "the Peruvian songbird" and "the nightingale of the Andes".
Links: CNN

October 31, 2008: Studs Terkel, 96, US broadcaster and author. He won the Plitzer Prize for his 1985 book The Good War.
Links: Chicago Tribune

October 17, 2008: Levi Stubbs, 72, US singer with Motown group the Four Tops. Their hits included Bernadette and Reach Out (I'll Be There).
Links: BBC

August 3, 2008: Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, 89, Nobel Prize winning Russian writer and Soviet dissident. His works about the USSR included One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Cancer Ward and Gulag Archipelago.
Links: Wikipedia

July 18, 2008: Jo Stafford, 90, US singer who was popular with servicemen during World War II and afterwards went on to sell 25 million albums.
Links: Telegraph

July 12, 2008: Tony Snow, 53, US political commentator, radio and TV host, and third press secretary to president George W. Bush, of cancer.
Links: Wikipedia

June 27, 2008: Michael Turner, 37, US comic-book artist, of bobe cancer. He drew covers for such titles as Superman/Batman, The Flash, Uncanny X-Men and Civil War, and created the character Witchblade.
Links: CNN

June 15, 2008: Dick "Tosser" Turner, 76, Australian rugby league manager and one of the pioneers of the State of Origin concept.
Links: ABC

June 14, 2008: Esbjorn Svensson, 44, Swedish jazz pianist and composer with the trio EST, in a scuba diving accident.
Links: BBC

June 7, 2008: Dino Risi, 91, Italian film director whose movies included 1974's Oscar-nominated Profumo di Donna, which was remade in Hollywood as Scent of a Woman. He was regarded as a master of comedy who made more than 50 films including Poveri ma Belli (Poor but Beautiful), Belle ma Povere (Poor Girl, Pretty Girl) and Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life).
Links: BBC

May 12, 2008: Irena Sendler, 98, Polish resistance hero and saviour of Jewish children.
Links: Telegraph

April 13?, 2008: Mark Speight, 42, British television host, of suspected suicide. Speight, the star of BBC children's show SMart, disappeared three months after his fiancee Natasha Collins died in the bath following a drug binge.
Links: BBC

March 19, 2008: Paul Scofield, 86, British stage and screen actor who won an Academy Award in 1966 for playing Sir Thomas More in the film of Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons.
Links: Times

February 28, 2008: Mike Smith, 64, lead singer and keyboard player with British pop band the Dave Clark Five. The band's hits included Glad All Over and Catch Us If You Can.
Links: USA Today

February 10, 2008: Roy Scheider, 75, American actor best known for his role as the police chief in Jaws. He also starred in All That Jazz and The French Connection.
Links: CNN

January 29, 2008: Margaret Truman Daniel, 83, mystery writer and entertainer who was the daughter of US President Harry S. Truman.
Links: CNN

January 27, 2008: Sunharto, 86, former president of Indonesia.
Links: NY Times

January 26, 2008: Kevin Stoney, 82, British character actor who appeared on stage, in films and on TV series including I, Claudius, The Prisoner, The Bill and Doctor Who.
Links: The Guardian

December 19, 2008: John Stewart, 68, US singer-songrwiter with the 1960s Americana act Kingston Trio. He also wrote the Monkees' hit Daydream Believer.
Links: CNN

December 28, 2007: Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor and director who made more than 100 films in a 57-year career beginning with 1948's Big Reunion. He was married to Yueju Opera singer Wang Wenjuan.
Links: Shanghai Daily

December 25, 2007: GP Sippy, 93, Indian filmmaker who produced the blockbusting 1975 Bollywood western Sholay (Flames).
Links: BBC

December 15, 2007: Sweet Louie Smith, 68, US singer born Marvin Smith who, with Sonny Charles, formed the Las Vegas R'n'B duo Checkmates. Their biggest hit was the 1969 Phil Spector-produced Black Pearl.
Links: NY Times

December 12, 2007: Ike Turner, 76, US rock musician. Turner, who rose to fame with ex-wife Tina (Anna Mae Bullock), had hits including Nutbush City Limits, Proud Mary and River Deep: Mountain High. Their abusive realtionship was chronicled in the film What's Love Got To Do With It?. In recent years, Turner toured with the band Kings of Rhythm.
Links: BBC; CNN

December 5, 2007: Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German avant-garde composer who influenced modern classical music, techno music and rock stars including John Lennon, Frank Zappa and David Bowie. Stockhausen was at the centre of controversy when he claimed the attacks of September 11, 2001 were "the greatest work of art one can imagine". He later apologised.
Links: CNN

November 27, 2007: Sean Taylor, 24, US footballer, shot by an intruder. He played safety with the Washington Redskins NFL team.
Links: CNN

November 20, 2007: Ian Smith, 88, former prime minister of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Smith defied the world to declare independence and led the country for 14 years, but that gave way to black majority rule under Robert Mugabe.
Links: BBC; Telegraph.

November 16, 2007: Andrea Stretton, 55, Australian arts and literary journalist, of lung cancer.
Links: The Australian

November 6, 2007: Hank Thompson, 82, US country music star. He had 60 top 40 hits, many of them novelty songs like Whoa Sailor and Six Pack to Go. His biggest hit was 1952's The Wild Side of Life.
Links: Dallas News

November 1, 2007: Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets Jr, 92, US pilot who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshia, Japan, hastening the end of World War II. His plane, Enola Gay, was named after his mother.
Links: NY Times

October 17, 2007: Brian Tait, 80, Australian entertainer who performed on television and stage. He was a fixture on the screens of Brisbane's Channel 7 from 1959 to the mid-'70s, and was the first Queenslander to win a Logie Award.
Links: Showbritz