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Ben Gazzara
February 3, 2012: Ben Gazzara, 81, US stage and screen actor most famous for his collaborations with film director John Cassavetes. His work included the TV series Run for Your Life, and the films Husbands, If It's Tuesday It Must Be Belgium, and Anatomy of a Murder.
Link: NY Times
Robert Hegyes
January 26, 2012: Robert Hegyes, 60, US actor best known for playing nerd Epstein in the TV series Welcome Back, Kotter.
Link: Wikipedia
Bob Holness
January 5, 2012: Bob Holness, 83, British actor and broadcaster who helmed the quiz show Blockbusters for many years. He did not, as urban legend had it, play the saxophone part on Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street.
Link: Daily Mail
Johannes Heesters
December 24, Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch entertainer who became a favourite in Germany but not in his homeland because of his association with the Nazis in the 1930s. His films included Die Leuchter des Kaisers and Das Hofkonzert.
Link: Variety
Vaclav Havel
December 18, 2011: Václav Havel, 75, Czech poet and playwright who became president of the Czech Republic in 1993 after the separation of Czechoslovakia.
Link: Wikipedia
Christopher Hitchens
December 15, 2011: Christopher Hitchens, 62, Anglo-American writer, intellectual and outspoken atheist, of cancer.
Link: Vanity Fair
Harold Hopkins
December 11, 2011: Harold Hokpins, 67, Australian stage and screen actor, of mesothelioma. He is best remembered for his roles in the films Don's Party, The Club and Gallipoli
Link: Herald Sun
Dobie Gray
December 6, 2011: Dobie Gray, 70, US pop ballad singer, of cancer. His hits included Drift Away, Loving Arms and In the Crowd.
Link: Variety
Mark Hall
November 18, 2011: Mark Hall, British animator who, along with Brian Cosgrove, created the television shows Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
Link: Guardian
Dulcie Gray
November 15, 2011: Dulcie Gray, 95, British stage and screen actress who often perfomred alongside her late husband Michael Denison. Best known for the TV series Howard's Way, she also wrote fiction and non-fiction works.
Link: NY Times
Bhupen Hazarika
November 5, 2011: Bhupen Hazarika, 85, Indian folk singer, musician, composer and filmmaker.
Link: BBC
Dolores Hope
September 19, 2011: Dolores Hope, 102, US singer and actress, and widow of comedian Bob Hope.
Esther Gordy Edwards
August 24, 2011: Esther Gordy Edwards, 91, executive with Motown music and sister of its founder, Berry Gordy. She also created and was president of the Motown Museum.
Link: Wikipedia
Sean Hoare
July 18, 2011: Sean Hoare, former News of the World journalist who became a whistleblower, telling the New York Times that former editor Andy Coulson knew about endemic phone hacking at the paper.
Link: BBC
Otto von Habsbur
July 4, 2011: Otto von Habsbur, 98, former Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary.
Link: Wikipedia
Andrew Gold
June 3, 2011: Andrew Gold, 59, US composer whose songs included Thank You For Being A Friend, the theme to the long-running sitcom Golden Girls. A multi-instrumentalist, he was also a highly regarded session musician, and the son of celebrated soprano Marni Nixon.
Link: Wikipedia
Bill Hunter
May 21, 2011: Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor who appeared in films including The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Newsfront, Strictly Ballroom and Muriel's Wedding.
Links: Wikipedia; Courier-Mail
Tim Hetherington
April 20, 2011: Tim Hetherington, 41, British Oscar-nominated documentary maker and photojournalist, killed along with photographer Chris Hondros on assignment in Libya.
Link: Wikipedia
Lyudmila Gurchenko
March 30, 2011: Lyudmila Gurchenko, 75, well-loved Ukraine-born Soviet film and stage actress who became an instant sensation with her first movie, Carnival Night in 1956.
Link: Wikipedia
Farley Granger
March 27, 2011: Farley Granger, 85, US actor best known for his roles in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train. He also appeared on Broadway in productions including The Crucible and The King and I.
Link: Telegraph
Jet Harris
March 18, 2011: Jet Harris, 71, British guitarist who played bass with The Shadows in the early 1960s.
Link: Wikipedia
Ferlin Husky
March 17, 2011: Ferlin Husky, 85, US country-pop singer.
Link: Wikipedia
Michael Gough
March 17, 2011: Michael Gough, 94, British actor who appeared in more than 150 films and TV shows, and found fame late in life as the butler Alfred Pennyworth in the Batman films of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Link: BBC
Nate Dogg
March 15, 2011: Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, 41, US rapper better known as Nate Dogg, of heart complications.
Link: Wikipedia
Annie Girardot
February 28, 2011: Annie Girardot, 79, French actress whose films included Treize à table, Rocco e i suoi fratelli, Docteur Françoise Gailland and The Piano Teacher.
Links: Wikipedia
Betty Garrett
February 12, 2011: Betty Garrett, 91, US stage and screen actress who starred in the films Take Me Out to the Ball Game and On the Town, and appeared in the sitcoms All in The Family and Laverne and Shirley. She and her husband Larry Parks were blacklisted by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
Link: BBC
J. Paul Getty III
February 5, 2011: J. Paul Getty III, 54, US oil-fortune heir who was kidnapped as a young man, when he was known as "the golden hippie", and spent the past 30 years in care after suffering a stroke brought on by drug abuse.
Link: Washington Post
Édouard Glissant
February 3, 2011: Édouard Glissant, French poet, critic and philosopher.
Link: Wikipedia
Gladys Horton
January 26, 2011: Gladys Horton, 65?, US singer who formed the girl group The Marvelettes, whose Please Mr Postman was the first Motown hit.
Link: NY Times
Bud Greenspan
December 25, 2010: Bud Greenspan, 85, US filmmaker, writer and broadcaster who specialised in documenting the Olympic Games.
Link: SI