Celebritydeaths.net

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

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

December 2, 2009: Eric Woolfson, musician with the Alan Parsons Project.

November 15, 2009: Edward Woodward, 79, British stage and screen actor who starred in the TV series Callan and the films The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant.
Links: Guardian

November 12, 2009: Paul Wendkos , 87, US director whose films included the 1959 teen surf hit Gidget, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, A Woman Named Moses and Guns of the Magnificent Seven.
Links: ABC

September 4, 2009: Keith Waterhouse, 80, British novelist, playwright and journalist who worked as a columnist for the Daily Mirror and the Daily Mail. His novel Billy Liar and play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell were known around the world. He also founded the Association for the Abolition of the Aberrant Apostrophe.
Links: Guardian

July 17, 2009: Gordon Waller, 64, Scottish-born vocalist with British duo Peter and Gordon, of cardiac disease. His hits with Peter Asher included A World Without Love and I Don't Want To See You Again.
Links: NME

February 6, 2009: James Whitmore, 87, American actor who played presidents Truman and Roosevelt, and racounteur Will Rogers in popular one-man stage shows. He also appeared in the movies The Shawshank Redemption, Kiss Me Kate, Oklahoma!, The Asphalt Jungle, Tora! Tora! Tora! and Battleground, and the TV series Gunsmoke and Temperatures Rising.
Links: SF Chronicle

January 13, 2009: Nancy Bird Walton, 93, pioneering Australian aviator.
Links: Age

October 18, 2008: Dee Dee Warwick, 63, 1960s soul singer and sister of Dionne Warwick, after a long illness. A cousin of singer Whitney Houston, she used to sing back-up vocals for Aretha Franklin before going solo.
Links: CNN

September 16, 2008: Norman Whitfield, 67, US Motown songwriter whose hits included I Heard It Through the Grapevine, Papa Was a Rolling Stone and War.
Links: CNN

September 16, 2008: Richard Wright, 65, keyboardist and founding member of British band Pink Floyd, of cancer.
Links: MTV

August 15 2008: Jerry Wexler, 91, US music producer who coined the term "rhthym and blues" and helped make stars of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Percy Sledge and Ray Charles.
Links: CNN

April 21, 2008: Al Wilson, 68, US singer best known for the hit Show and Tell, of kidney failure.
Links: CNN

March 24, 2008: Richard Widmark, 93, US screen actor who starred in Kiss of Death, Two Rode Together, Madigan, How the West Was Won, Death of a Gunfighter and Murder on the Orient Express.
Links: CNN

March 20, 2008: Brian Wilde, 86, British actor best known for his roles in the television comedies Porridge and Last of the Summer Wine.
Links: Guardian

October 28, 2007: Porter Wagoner, 80, American country singer, of lung cancer. He was a star of the Grand Ole Opry and a Grammy award winner who had hits with Last Thing on My Mind and Please Don't Stop Loving Me.
Links: NY Times

September 10, 2007: Jane Wyman, 93, American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan, who went on to become US President. She won and Oscar for her role in Johnny Belinda and gained a new generation of fans through the TV series Falcon Crest.
Links: CNN

August 10, 2007: Tony Wilson, 57, British music mogul, of cancer. A former broadcaster, he owned Manchester's popular Hacienda nightclub and was one of the co-founders of Factory Records, which produced bands such as Happy Mondays, Joy Division and New Order in the 1980s.
Links: AOL, NME.

June 14, 2007: Kurt Waldheim, 88, former United Nations Secretary General and Austrian president. Waldheim's reputation was tarnished when it was revealed that he had hidden his involvement with a Nazi military unit in the Balkans during World War II.
Links: New York Times

March 18, 2007: Bob Woolmer, 58, former England test cricketer and coach of the Pakistan team. Woolmer, who played for England from 1975 to 1981, coached South Africa between 1994 and 1999.
Links: ABC; BBC

March 10, 2007: Angela Webber, 52, Australian writer and comedian, of cancer. Her most recent work was the televisions series, Mortified. She also wrote for Hi-5 and developed the TV series Blue Water High.
Links: ABC

March 5, 2007: Ian Wooldridge, 75, British sport journalist regarded as a master of his profession.
Links: The Guardian; Daily Mail

December 21, 2006: Sydney Wooderson, 92, British athlete who broke many world running records - inlcuding the mile record in 1938 - but missed out on Olympic gold due to injury.
Links: The Guardian. Wikipedia.