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March 2, 2010: Winston Churchill, 69, British journalist and Conservative MP, the grandson and namesake of the World War II prime minister.
Links: Times

March 1, 2010: Kristian Digby, 32, British TV host and filmmaker, best known for That Gay Show and property program To Buy or Not to Buy.
Link: BBC

February 6, 2010: Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician. As a young man he played clarinet with the likes of Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, and later became a film and television music composer. He often accompanied his wife, singer Cleo Laine.
Link: Jazzwise

February 5, 2008: Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor who starred in the films School for Scoundrels and I'm Alright Jack and on television as the eponymous hero in Lord Peter Wimsey and Bertie Wooster in The World of Wooster.
Link: BBC

January 14, 2009: Bobby Charles, 79, US "swamp pop" songwriter, born Robert Charles Guidry, who penned hits for Fats Domino and Bill Haley and His Comets. His chart-toppers included See You Later Aligator and Walking to New Orleans.
Link: BBC

January 8, 2010: Art Clokey, 88, American animator, born Arthur Charles Farrington, who created the popular children's character Gumby.
Link: NY Times

January 1, 2010: Jean Carroll, 98, pioneering Paris-born American comedian. Born Celine Zeigman, she began her career in vaudeville and became known as "the female Bob Hope".
Link: Chortle

December 25, 2009: Vic Chesnutt, 45, US singer-songwriter whose songs were also performed by Madonna, the Indigo Girls, Smashing Pumpkins an REM. Paralyzed since an accident at age 18, he reportedly took an overdose of muscle relaxant.
Links: LA Times; Times

December 22, 2009: Mick Cocks, Australian musician who, with Gary "Angr" Anderson, founded rock band Rose Tattoo.
Link: ABC

December 16, 2009: Roy E. Disney, 79, former Walt Disney Co. executive and large shareholder in the company founded by his uncle Walt and father Roy. O. Disney.

December 8, 2009: Su Cruickshank, 63, Australian jazz singer, comic and actress who starred in Young Einstein.

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

September 11, 2009: Jim Carroll, 60, US punk rocker, poet and writer, of a heart attack. He was best known for his 1980 album Catholic Boy and his book The Basketball Diaries, which was made into a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
Links: CNN

August 30, 2009: Simon Dee, 77, British DJ and TV chat-show host born Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd. He was a huge star in the 1960s and said to be an inspiration for the Austen Powers character. He fell out of favour with both the BBC and commercial TV and became a bus driver.
Links: Guardian

August 26, 2009: Dominick Dunne, 83, best-selling US author of novels including The Two Mrs. Grenvilles and People Like Us, and columnist for Vanity Fair magazine.
Links: NPR

August 15: Jim Dickinson, 67, US musician who played with some of the rock'n'roll greats.
Links: Newsday

August 6, 2009: Willy DeVille, 58, US punk rocker and founder of 70s band Mink Deville, of pancreatic cancer. His work in more recent times was influenced by New Oreleans soul and R&B artists, and by French artists including Edith Piaf.
Links: EW

July 27, 2009: Merce Cunningham, 90, US choreographer whose work revolutionised modern dance in a career spanning more than 60 years.
Links: CNN

July 27, 2009: Ross Coleman, 60, Australian dancer and choreographer who starred as Paul in the original Australian production of A Chorus Line and went on to choreograph shows including Grease, The Rocky Horror Show and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Links: Aussie Theatre

July 25, 2009: Alexis Cohen, 25, American Idol contender whose colourful antics made her popular with audiences, in a car accident.
Links: EW

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 13, 2009: Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, of assisted suicide in Switzerland along with his choreographer wife Joan, 74. As director of the Australian Opera in 1973, Downes was the first to conduct at the Sydney Opera House. He was also renowned as an expert on the composer Verdi, wroked extensively with the BBC Philharmonic and Royal Opera and was knighted in 1991.
Links: Guardian

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

June 3, 2009: David Carradine, 72, US actor best known as star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu. More recently, he played an assassin in the Quentin Tarrantino film Kill Bill. Thai police said the actor was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room with a rope around his neck.
Links: BBC

May 31, 2009: Millvina Dean, 97, the last survivor of the Titanic, which sank on April 15, 1912. She was nine weeks old at the time of the disaster, in which her father was one of the 1517 vicitms.
LInks: BBC

May 4, 2009: Dom DeLuise, comedic US actor best known for his roles in the films Cannonball Run, Silent Movie, Spaceballs and Blazing Saddles. He also wrote cookbooks and children's books.
Links: CNN

April 12, 2009: Marilyn Chambers, 56, US porn actress, of suspected suicide.
Links: CNN

February 7, 2009: Blossom Dearie, 82, American singer-songwirter born Marguerite Blossom Dearie. She sang jazz and formed her own group in Paris in the 1950s, and performed with the likes of Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. Her repertoire extended to warm parody songs, and she launched her own record label, Daffodil, in the 1970s.
Links: Telegraph

December 18, 2008: Jack Douglas, 81, British comedian best known for his roles in eight of the Carry On comedy films. He was also a star of the children's show Crackerjack.
Links: The Sun

November 4, 2008: Michael Crichton, 66, American author who wrote Jurassic Park and created the TV series E.R., of cancer.
Links: Times