Celebritydeaths.net

December 15, 2011: Christopher Hitchens, 62, Anglo-American writer, intellectual and outspoken atheist, of cancer.
Link: Vanity Fair

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

November 12, 2011: Peter Roebuck, 55, English cricketer with Somerset county who became a respected newspaper writer and commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was found dead at a hotel in Newlands, South Africa.
Link: ABC

November 4, 2011: Andy Rooney, 92, US broadcaster who was a fixture on the CBS current affairs program 60 Minutes for 33 years.
Link: NY Times

September 13, 2011: David Jull, 66, Australian politician and former radio and TV presenter, newsreader and executive.
Link: Wikipedia

August 18, 2011: Paul Lockyer, 61, Australian television journalist who died alongside ABC cameraman John Bean and pilot Gary Ticehurst in a helicopter crash at Lake Eyre in central Australia.
Link: Australian

December 20, 2010: Brian Hanrahan, 61, British Broadcasting Corporation journalist and foreign correspondent who covered the Falklands War, the assassination of Indira Gandhi, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tianamen Square protests, of cancer.
Link: BBC

October 11, 2010: Claire Rayner, 79, British newspaper "agony aunt", broadcaster, former nurse, humanist and patients' rights campaigner.
Link: Guardian

July 28, 2010: Ivy Bean, 104, British woman who was regarded as the world's oldest Twitter and Facebook user. Her thousands of fans included TV and music star Peter Andre, politician Lord Prescott and writer and broadcasterr Stephen Fry.
Link: Wikipedia

June 12, 2010: Egon Ronay, Hungarian-born restaurateur and pioneering food critic who helped modernise British cuisine.
Link: Independent

June 4, 2010: Brian Duffy, 76, British photographer who chronicled the Swinging Sixties.
Link: Guardian

March 23, 2010: Jim Marshall, 74, rock photographer who produced iconic images of the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and hundreds of others.
Link: AP

March 20, 2010: Harry Carpenter, 84, British broadcaster known as the BBC's voice of boxing. Carpenter wrote a history of the sport was best remembered for his banter with former boxer Frank Bruno, who uttered to him celebrated phrase: "Know, what I mean 'Arry?"
Link: Times

November 7, 2009: Vic Davies, 55, Australian radio announcer, of lung cancer. With Mal Lees, he formed the popular duo "Club Veg" for Sydney stations 2SM and Triple M.
Links: news.com.au

October 18, 2009: Ludovic Kennedy, 89, Edinburgh-born British broadcaster, author and journalist. His book Ten Rillington Place led to a posthumous pardon for Timothy Evans, who was executedf for killing his baby daughter, and he later became a respected television reporter and newsreader.
Links: Guardian

October 4, 2009: Mike Ahern, 67, British radio presenter who worked for Radio Caroline and the BBC in the UK, and in Brisbane, Australia, on Radio 4BC.
Links: Radio Today; 4BC

September 29, 2009: Father James Murray, 82, Catholic priest and writer who was the long-erving relgious affairs editor of The Australian.
Links: The Australian

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 14, 2009: Keith Floyd, 67, British television chef, of a heart attack. He was best known for his series of programs mostly beginning with the words "Floyd on ..."
Links: Times

September 9, 2009: Army Archerd, 87, longtime US Hollywood journalist, who wrote a column for Variety for more than 50 years. He was one of the few in Hollywood to stand up to the House of UnAmerican Activities in the 1950s.
Links: CNN

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

August 19, 2009: Don Hewitt, 86, US television producer who created the successful CBS current affairs program 60 Minutes.
Links: Guardian

July 17, 2009: Walter Cronkite, 92, US broadcaster and journalist who read the news for the CBS network for decades, interviewed the powerful and famous, and in the 1970s was voted "the most trusted man in America".
Links: CBS

July 3, 2009: Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian journalist who became editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Post and The Australian, and in recent years was an acclaimed conservative columnist.
Links: The Australian

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

April 22, 2009: Ron Brady, 74, first newsreader for ABC Television in Queensland, Australia, of cancer.
Links: 612ABC

April 15, 2009: Clement Freud, 84, British broadcaster, writer and former Liberal member of Pariliament. He was possibly best known as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Just a Minute panel game. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
Links: Guardian

April 3, 2009: Tom Braden, 91, US political journalist who launched the CNN program Crossfire, which pitted his liberal views against those of a conservative commentator. He also wrote the memoir Eight Is Enough, which was turned into a TV sitcom.
Links: CNN

March 27, 2009: John Vincent, 67, Australian radio announcer, who was born in Sydney and worked around the country, especially in Adelaide where he became a star on 5KA, 5AD and SAFM.

February 28, 2009: Paul Harvey, 90, US broadcaster with the ABC radio network. He once commanded a huge audience across America and internationally through the Armed Forces network, and was working up until last year.
Links: CNN