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Diana Bliss
January 28, 2012: Diana Bliss, 57, Australian theatre producer and wife to businessman Alan Bond.
Link: Telegraph
Ian Abercrombie
January 26, 2012: Ian Abercrombie, 77, English stage and screen actor best known for playing Mr Pitt in Seinfeld, and as Alfred Pennyworth in Birds of Prey.
Link: Wikipedia
Theo Angelopoulos
December 24, 2012: Theo Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director whose works included The Huntsman, The Beekeeper and Ulysses’ Gaze.
Link: Telegraph
Eve Arnold
Israel Baker
December 25, 2011: Israel Baker, 92, classical violinist who played and helped create the Bernard Hermann score on Alfred Hitchcock'a Psycho.
Link: Contact Music
Bob Burnett
December 8, 2011: Bob Burnett, 71, US folk musician with influential 1960s group the Highwaymen.
Link: LA Times
Dev Anand
December 3, 2011: Dev Anand, 84, Bollywood actor once known as "the Adonis of Indian cinema". His films over a 65-career included Guide, Paying Guest,Jewel Thief and the recently released Chargesheet.
Link: BBC
Artie Beetson
December 1, 2011: Arthur "Artie" Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league player and coach, born in Roma, Queensland, of a heart attack while cycling. He was the first indigenous player to captain Australia in any sport.
Link: Wikipedia; Brisbane Times
Frances Bay
September 15, 2011: Frances Bay, 92, Canadian-born US actress who appeared in the TV series Happy Days and Seinfeld, and in films ranging from Happy Gilmore to Blue Velvet.
Link: Washington Post
Nick Ashford
August 22, 2011: Nick Ashford, 70, US Motown songwriter who, with his wife Valerie Simpson, wrote hits including Ain’t No Mountain High Enough and Reach Out.
Links: Wikipedia
Roberts Blossom
July 8, 2011: Roberts Blossom, 87, US stage and screen actor best remembered as the old neighbour in Home Alone.
Link: Washington Post
Simon Bond
June 22, 2001; Simon Bond, 63, US-born British cartoonist best known for his book 101 Uses of a Dead Cat.
Link: Independent
Harry Bernstein
June 3, 2011: Harry Bernstein, 101, British-American writer. His first book, The Invisible Wall, was published when he was 96. He worked in film production and as a freelance writer.
Link: Wikipedia
James Arness
June 3, 2011: James Arness, 88, US actor best known for his starring role as Marshal Matt Dillon in the long-running Gunsmoke TV series. The brother of actor Peter Graves, he also appeared in sci-fi films The Thing from Another World and Them!, and How the West Was Won.
Links: Seattle Times; Wikipedia
Jon Blake
May 29, 2011: Paul Jon "Sonny" Blake, 52, New Zealand-born Australian actor, of pneumonia. Considered a rising star whose talents rivalled those of Mel Gibson, Blake, who featured in A Country Practice, The Restless Years, Anzacs, The Lighthorseman and other TV series and films, was totally disabled by a car accident in 1986, and was cared for by his mother, son and volunteers.
Link: news.com.au
Joseph Brooks
May 22, 2011: Joseph Brooks, 73, US songriter whose works include You Light Up My Life, of suicide following allegations against him of sexual assault.
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Seve Ballesteros
May 7, 2011: Severiano Ballesteros, 54, champion Spanish golfer, from a cancerous brain tumour.
Link: Telegraph
Alexander Barykin
March 26, 2011: Alexander Barykin, 59, Russian singer-songwriter who became popular in 1980s, of a heart attack after a concert.
Link: Voice of Russia
Kym Bonython
March 19, 2011: Kym Bonython, 90, Adelaide-based Australian racing-car driver who was also a music promoter and supporter of the visual arts.
Link: ABC
Tommy Burns
February 14, 2011: Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer, who was the sport's biggest drawcard in his hey-day in the late 1940s, and had a starring role in the 1949 Charles Chauvel film Sons of Matthew.
Links: Courier-Mail
Peter Alexander
February 13, 2011: Peter Alexander, 84, popular Austrian actor, singer and television host, born Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer.
Link: ABC
John Barry
January 30, 2011: John Barry, 77, British film-music composer who worked on several James Bond films, starting with Dr No, for which he arranged Monty Norman's Bond theme; plus Born Free, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves.
Link: Guardian
Milton Babbitt
January 29, 2011: Milton Babbitt, 94, US composer and mulit-instrumentalist who became a pioneer of electronic music.
Link: Wikipedia
Aron Abrams
December 25, 2010: Aron Abrams, 50, US television producer whose credits included £rd Rock from the Sun and Everybody Hates Chris, of an apparent heart attack.
Link: E!
Elisabeth Beresford,
December 24, 2010: Elisabeth Beresford, 84, British writer who created the popular children's characters The Wombles, who appeared in print and in a well-loved TV series.
Links: Guardian
Captain Beefheart
December 17, 2010: Captain Beefheart, 69, US avant-garde musician and painter, born Don Van Vliet. A friend and collaborator of Frank Zappa, he fronted The Magic Band and released 12 albums before retiring from the music business to take up art.
Link: Wikipedia
Jerry Bock
November 3, 2010: Jerry Bock, 81, US composer who, with Sheldon Harnick, wrote Broadway musicals including Fiddler on the Roof and Fiorello!
Link: Wikipedia
Lisa Blount
October 27, 2010 Lisa Blount, 53, US film producer and actres who starred in the film An Officer and a Gentleman.
Link: Daily Mail
Denise Borino-Quinn
October 27, 2010: Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, US manicurist-cum-actress who featured as "Rubinesque" mafia wife Ginny Sacrimoni in The Sopranos, of cancer.
Link: CNN
Alexander Anderson
October 22, 2010: Alexander Anderson, 90, creator of cult US cartoon series Rocky and His Friends, and its characters Rocket J Squirrel and Bullwinkle J Moose, a.s well as Mountie Dudley Do-Right
Link: Time