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September 1, 2010: Cammie King Conlon, 76, US child actor who played Bonnie Blue, the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, in the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind. She also voiced a character in Bambi, in 1942, but never worked in movies again.
Link: NBC

August 30, 2010: Victoria Longley, 49, Australian actress who had a distinguished stage career and mentored young television actors, of breast cancer. Her own TV career included roles in Wildside, Young Lions, Water Rats and All Saints while her stage credits included King Lear, The Vertical Hour, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Link: SMH

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

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

August 14, 2010: Abbey Lincoln, 84, US jazz singer, songwriter and actress whose hits included ou Gotta Pay the Band, recorded with Stan Getz, and Devil's Got Your Tongue. She was also active in the civil-rights movement.
Link: Shanghai Daily

August 9, 2010: George DiCenzo, 71, US actor, commercial and cartoon voiceover artist and producer who appeared in more than 30 films including g Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Back to the Future and About Last Night.
Link: Wikipedia

August 8, 2010: Patricia Neal, 84, US stage and screen actress who won an Academy Award for the 1963 film Hud. She was also in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Breakfast at Tiffany's
Link: CBS

July 31, 2010: Tom Mankiewicz, 68, US screenwriter and director whose writing credits include the first two Superman films and the James Bond movies, Diamonds Are Forever and Live and Let Die.
Link: SMH

July 20, 2010: Jon Cleary, 92, Australian writer whose works included the novels You Can't See Round Corners, Degrees of Connection and The Sundowners. His best-known character is the Sydney detective Scobie Malone, the subject of 20 crime novels.
Link:Brisbane Times

July 14, 2010: Sir (Alan) Charles Mackerras, 84, New York-born, London-based Australian conductor who specialised in the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Link: Wikipedia

July 12, 2010: Harvey Pekar, 70, US cult cartoonist best known for his autobiographical series, American Splendor. He was portrayed in the 2003 film of the same name by Paul Giamatti.
Link: BBC

July 10, 2010: Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer and poet whose career began in the late 1960s with The African Brothers.
Link: Wikipedia

July 9, 2010: Lawrence Vonetta McGee, 65, African-American star of 1970s blaxploitation films Melinda and Hammer, and the 1975 film The Eiger Sanction, alongside Clint Eastwood. She also appeared in the TV series Bustin' Loose, LA Law and Cagney & Lacey
Link: Wikipedia

July 2, 2010: Dame Beryl Bainbridge, 75, British novelist whose works included An Awfully Big Adventure, The Dressmaker and Injury Time.
Link: BBC

June 25, 2010 Alan Plater, 75, British dramatist, novelist and screenwriter whose work ranged from TV series Z Cars to The Fortunes of War and The Blonde Bombshell.
Link BBC

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 21, 2010: Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and writer best known as the creator of papier-mache-headed character Frank Sidebottom.
Link: BBC

June 18, 2010: Ronald Neame, 99, London-born British and Hollywood film director whose successes included Blithe Spirit, The Poseidon Adventure and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He also wrote screenplays, including Brief Encounter and Great Expectations.
Link: BBC

June 13, 2010: Jimmy Dean, 81, US country singer, TV host and promoter of sausages. His biggest hit was 1961's Big Bad John.
Link: Wikipedia

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

June 3, 2010: Rue McClanahan, 76, US stage and screen actress best known for her role as Blanche in TV sitcom The Golden Girls.
Links: LA Times

May 29, 2010: Dennis Hopper, 74, US film actor best known for his role in Easy Rider. He also starred in Rebel Without a Cause, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet.
Link: Guardian

May 28, 2010: Gary Coleman, 42, US child actor, from a head injury. He starred as Arnold in the 1970s sitcom Diff'rent Strokes but struggled to find work as an adult.
Links: NY Daily News

May 26, 2010: Art Linkletter, 97, American comedian and radio and television host known for his amusing interviews with members of the public and children.
Links: BBC

May 24, 2010: Paul Gray, 38, bassist with US band Slipknot, found dead in a hotel room.
Link: Washington Post

May 23, 2010: Ray Alan, 79, British ventriloquist who, with his dummy Lord Charles, appeared alongsie Laurel and Hardy, on television, in music hall and on cruise liners.
Link: BBC

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 9, 2010: Lena Horne, 92, African American jazz singer and civil rights activist whose hits included Stormy Weather.
Links: Independent

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 25, 2010: Alan Sillitoe, 82, one of Britain's "angry young men" of the 1950s whose novels included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Link: Telegraph