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Angelo Dundee
February 1, 2012: Angelo Dundee, 90, US professional boxing coach who guided the careers of Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard.
Link: NY Times
Jimmy Castor
January 16, 2012: Jimmy Castor, 64, US funk music legend whose hits included I Promise to Remember and Troglodyte (Cave Man).
Link: Wikipedia
Zelman Cowen
December 8, 2011: Sir Zelman Cowen, 92, Australian lawyer and academic who became the nation's Governor General.
Link: Brisbane Times
Basil D'Oliveira
November 19, 2011: Basil D'Oliveira, 80, South African-born cricketer who was classified as "coloured" under the apathedi regims. His selection to play for England in South Africa in 1968 led to the cancellation of the tour and was a watershed moment in the sporting boycott of South Africa.
Link: Wikipedia
Betty Driver
October 15, 2011: Betty Driver, 91, British actress who began in showbiz at age 12 but gained fame four decades later as Betty Turpin, later Betty Williams, in long-running TV soap opera Coronation Street.
Link: BBC
Diane Cilento
October 7, 2011: Diane Cilento, 78, Australian stage and screen actress whose films included The Agony and the Ecstasy, Tom Jones and The Third Secret. She was married to actor Sean Connery and later playwright Anthony Shaffer, with who she developed the Karnak Playhouse in Far North Queensland.
Link: Wikipedia
Graham Dilley
October 5, 2011: Graham Dilley, 52, English cricketer, who bowled in 41 test matches and is regarded as the unsung hero of the team's victory in the 1981 Ashes series.
Link: Wikipedia
David Croft
Jonathan Cecil
September 22, 2011: Jonathan Cecil , 72, British stage and screen actor who specialised in playing upper-class twits, including Bertie Wooster in the 1981 BBC show Thank You, PG Wodehouse. He also appeared in the sitcom Romany Jones.
Link: Independent
John Howard Davies
August 22, 2011: John Howard Davies, 72, British child actor who starred as Oliver Twist in the 1948 film, and then became a television director and producer for shows including Fawlty Towers, The Goodies and Mr Bean.
Link: Wikipedia
Annette Charles
August 3, 2011: Annette Charles, 63, US actress best known for her role as Cha Cha in the film musical Grease.
LinK: Sacbee
Michael Cacoyannis
July 25, 2011: Michael Cacoyannis, 90, Greek-Cypriot film-maker whose best known film was 1964's Zorba the Greek.
Link: Wikipedia
Linda Christian
July 22, 2011: Linda Christian, 87, Mexico-born US film actress nicknamed "the atomic bomb" by Life magazine. Born Bianca Rosa Welter, she was once married to Tyrone Power. She was also the first "Bond girl", having starred in a 1950s TV adaptation of Casino Royale.
Link: AFP
Ryan Dunn
June 20, 2011: Ryan Dunn, 34, US performer who performed crazy stunts for the Jackass films, in a car accident.
Link: TMZ
Clarence Clemons
June 18, 2011: Clarence Clemons, 69, US musician and actor who, most famously, played saxophone with Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.
Link: CNN
Jeff Conaway
May 27, 2011: Jeff Conaway, 60, US actor who starred in the film Grease and the TV series Taxi and Babylon 5.
Link: Wikipedia
Jackie Cooper
May 3, 2011: Jackie Cooper, 88, US former child star who featured in the Our Gang films.
Link: NY Times
Henry Cooper
May 1, 2001: Henry Cooper, 76, British heavyweight boxing champ best known for knocking down Muhammad Ali.
Link: wikipedia
Warren Christopher
March 18, 2011: Warren Christopher, 85, long-serving US diplomat who was Secretary of State in Bill Clinton's first presidential term.
Link: Wikipedia
Nicholas Courtney
February 22, 2011: William Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor best known for his recurring role as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the long-running British sc-fi television series Doctor Who.
Link: Wikipedia
Charlie Callas
January 27, 2011: Charlie Callas, 83, US comedian who was a fixture on talk and variety shows in the 1970s and 80s and appeared in the TV series Switch.
Link: NY Times
John Dye
January 10, 2011: John Dye, 47, US actor whose roles inclluded the Angel of Death in the TV series Touched By An Angel.
Link: PI
Bill Erwin
December 29, 2010: Bill Erwin, 96, American actor who had a long career on the stage and screen, including an appearance on Seinfeld as the grumpy old man, Sid Fields. He was also a regular on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Link: LA Times
James Dibble
December 13, 2010: James Dibble, 87, longtime newsreader for ABC television in Sydney, Australia. He presented the first ABC TV news bulletin on November 5, 1956, and continued in the role for 27 years.
Link: ABC
Ladislav Demeterffy
November 19, 2010: Ladislav Demeterffy, 77, Croation singer known as Laci or 75 Cents, who competed in the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest, with vocals on the song Romanca.
Link: Wikipedia
Isabelle Caro
November 17, 2010: Isabelle Caro, 28, French model whose battle with anoxeria -- her weight at one stage dropped to 25kg -- raised concerns in the fashion industry and the wider community. In 2007, she posed naked for billboards highlighting her condition.
Link: Wikipedia
Dino De Laurentiis
November 11, 2010: Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis, 91, Academy Award-winning Italian film producer, whose movies included La Strada,
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die, Mandingo, Three Days of the Condor, Barbarella and Serpico.
Link: Wikipedia
Jill Clayburgh
November 5, 2010: Jill Clayburgh, 66. US stage and screen actress, of chronic leukaemia. Her films included Semi-Tough, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can and An Unmarried Woman.
Link: NY Times
Stephen J. Cannell
September 30, 2010: Stephen J. Cannell, 69, US television producer and writer, and novelist, whose creations included The Rockford Files, Adam-12, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Wiseguy and 21 Jump Street.
Link: Wikipedia
Tony Curtis