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Ronnie Wolfe
December 18, 2011: Ronnie Wolfe, 89, British writer best known for creating, with Ronald Chester, the sitcoms On the Buses and The Rag Trade.
Link: Guardian
Nicol Williamson
December 16, 2011: Nicol Williamson, 75, British stage and screen actor whose roles included Hamlet, Sherlock Holmes, Merlin and Little John.
Link: LA Times
Tom Wicker
November 25, 2011: Tom Wicker, 85, US journalist with the New York Times who came to prominence for his coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Link: Wikipedia
Sarah Watt
November 4, 2011: Sarah Watt, 53, Australian filmmaker who directed Look Both Ways and My Year Without Sex, of cancer. She was married to actor William McInnes.
Link: ABC
Keith Williams
October 19, 2011: Keith Williams, 82, Australian property developer whose tourism projects included Sea World on the Gold Coast and resorts at Hamilton Island and Port Hinchinbrook.
Link: Courier-Mail
Dan Wheldon
October 16, 2011: Dan Wheldon, 33, British-born US Indycar champion, killed in a track accident at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Link: Wikipedia.
Roger Williams
October 8, 2011: Roger Williams, 87, virtuoso US pianist.
Link: Sun-Times
Robert Whitaker
September 20, 2011: Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer best known for his pictures of the Beatles,but who also shot fashion spreads and covered the Vietnam War.
Link: Telegraph
Andy Whitfield
September 11, 2011: Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor, of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. He starred in the New Zealand-made US series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, as well as Australian shows All Saints, The Strip, Packed to the Rafters and McLeod's Daughters.
Link: Wikipedia
Nancy Wake
August 7, 2011: Nancy Wake, 98, Australia's most decorated war heroine, who worked with the French Resistance during World War II,when she was known as the "White Mouse". For her work in sheltering Jews and resisting the Nazis she received the French Legion d'Honneur, Britain's George Medal and the US Medal of Freedom.
Link: ABC
Amy Winehouse
Googie Withers
July 15, 2011: Georgette Lizette "Googie" Withers, 94, Indian-born British actress, who lived much of her life in Australia with her husband John McCallum.
Link: Wikipedia; ABC
Samuel Wanjiru
May 15, 2001: Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic champion athlete, in a fall from a balcony.
Link: Daily Mail
John Walker
May 7, 2011: John Walker, 67, US musician born John Maus who was a member of the band The Walker Brothers.
Link: Wikipedia
Dana Wynter
May 5, 2011: Dana Wynter , 79, German-British stage and screen actress, born Dagmar Winter, whose films included the original 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Link: Wikipedia
Lanford Wilson
March 23, 2011: Lanford Wilson, 75, US playwright whose works included Burn This and Talley's Folly.
Link: BBC
Max Wilk
February 19, 2011: Max Wilk, 90, US author who wrote books about great musicals; the novelisation of the animated film Yellow Submarine; and Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River, which became a film starring Jerry Lewis.
Link: Wikipedia
Susannah York
January 15, 2011: Susannah York, 72, British stage and screen ctress of They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Superman and Cactus Flower fame.
Link: WIkipedia
Margaret Whiting
January 10, 2011: Margaret Whiting, 86, US pop and country singer who rose to fame in the 1940s and 1950s. Her hits included That Old Black Magis, A Tree in the Meadow and Baby, It's Cold Outside.
Link: Wikipedia
Bernie Wilson
December 26, 2010: Bernie Wilson, 64, US baritone withR&B group Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes. Their biggest hit was 1972's If You Don't Know Me by Now.
Link: Billboard
Tom Walkinshaw
December 12, 2010: Tom Walkinshaw, 64, Scottish motor racing and rugby star who was also credited with discovering the band Simple Minds.
Link: Wikipedia
James Wall
October 29, 2010 James Wall, 92, African American stage and screen actor best known for his role as Mr Baxter in children's TV series Captain Kangaroo. He was also a longtime stage manager with CBS.
Link: CBS
Norman Wisdom
October 4, 2010: Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian who made a string of successful films in the 1950s and 60s, including A Stitch In Time and Trouble In Store.
Link: BBC
George David Weiss
August 23, 2010: George David Weiss, 89, US songwriter whose hits included What a Wonderful World, The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Can't Help Falling In Love.
Link: BBC
Robert Wilson
August 15, 2010: Robert Wilson, 53, bassist with US funk group The Gap Band. Their hits included Oops Up Side Your Head, Big Fun and Party Lights.
Link: BBC
David Warren
July 19, 2010: David Warren, 85, Australian-born inventor of the aircraft "black box" data recorder.
Link: NY Times
Adriana Xenides
June 6, 2010: Adriana Xenides, 54, Australian television hostess best remebered as the letter turner on the game show Wheel of Fortune. She had a troubled life off screen and died from complications after surgery.
Link: news.com.au
Carl Williams
April 19, 2010: Carl Williams, 39, notorious Australian gangland figure, murdered in jail by a fellow inmate.
Link: ABC
Jason Wood
February 20, 2010: Jason Wood, 38, British comedian, muscial impressionist and star of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing.
Link: Chortle
Charlie Wilson
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