Celebritydeaths.net

July 24, 2010: Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, 61, Northern Ireland snooker legend, of throat cancer. He was world champion in 1972 and 1982.
Link: BBC

May 29, 2010: Dennis Hopper, 74, US film actor best known for his role in Easy Rider. He also starred in Rebel Without a Cause, Apocalypse Now and Blue Velvet.
Link: Guardian

May 24, 2010: Paul Gray, 38, bassist with US band Slipknot, found dead in a hotel room.
Link: Washington Post

May 9, 2010: Lena Horne, 92, African American jazz singer and civil rights activist whose hits included Stormy Weather.
Links: Independent

April 20, 2010: Dr Dorothy Height, 98, pioneering US civil rights activist. President Barack Obama described her as "the godmother of the civil rights movement" and a hero to Americans.
Link: BBC

April 19, 2010: Guru, 43, New York Rapper of Gang Starr fame. Born Keith Alam, he died after suffering an angressive form of cancer.
Link: Guardian

April 15, 2010: Benjamin L. Hooks, 85, former longtime head of the US National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

March 29, 2010: June Havoc, 97, US child star, actress on Broadway and in films including Gentleman's Agreement, writer, producer and sister to stripper Gypsy Rose Lee. She was born June Hovick and her life story partly inspired the musical Gypsy.
Link: BBC

March 17, 2010: Charlie Gillett, 68, longtime BBC radio announcer and world-music champion, of an auto-immune disease. He also wrote the rock'n'roll history The Sound of the City.
Link: BBC

March 14, 2010: Peter Graves, 83, US actor best known as the star of the Mission Impossible television series. He also featured in films including Stalag 17, Night of the Hunter and as Captain Oveur in Airplane! (aka Flying High!).
Link: NY Times

March 10, 2010: Corey Haim, 38, Canadaina born Hollywood actor, of an apparent drug overdose. Haim starred in hot teen films of the 1980s including The Lost Boys, License to Drive and Lucas, often alongside Corey Feldman with whom he starred in a 2008 reality TV series The Two Coreys.
Links: LA Times

February 20, 2010: Alesander Haig, 85, US Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan.
Link: Times

February 17, 2010: Kathryn Grayson, 88, Hollywood actress known for her beauty and singing voice. She starred in box-offices hits including Show Boat, Anchors Aweigh and Kiss Me Kate.
Link: Washington Post.

February 17, 2010: Ruby Hunter, 54, indigenous Australian singer/songwriter who often performed with her lifelong partner, Archie Roach.
Link: Courier-Mail

Janaury 24, 2010: Dave Grant, 50, Australian standup comedian, of pancreatic cancer.
Link: Chortle

December 30, 2009: Rowland S Howard, 50, Australian guitarist with the band The Birthday Party, of liver cancer.
Link: news.com.au

December 24, 2009: Tim Hart, 66, British folk musician, of lung cancer. He performed in a duo with Maddy Prior and was a founder member of the band Steeleye Span.
Link: Herald

December 18, 200: Connie Hines, 79, US actress best known for playing Wilbur's wife, Carol Post, in television's Mr Ed.
Link: Mercury

October 11, 2009: Bobby Graham, 69, British session drumer, born Robert Francis Neate, who played on hits including We Gotta Get Out Of This Place by The Animals, Petula Clark’s Downtown, Dusty Springfield’s I Only Want To Be With You, and The Kinks' You Really Got Me. He is said to have been turned down membership of The Beatles.
Links: Glasgow Herald

September 10, 2009: Stephen Gately, 33, Irish singer with Boyzone, found dead in Majorca. He had hit singles with the band as a solo artist, also starred on stage in Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and in the horror film Credo. The gay singer married Andrew Cowles in a civil union in early 2006.
Links: Sky News

September 14, 2009: Henry Gibson, 73, US actor and comedian best known for his roles in TV series Laugh-In and Boston Legal and the movies Nashville and The Blues Brothers.
Links: CNN

September 11, 2009: Larry Gelbart, 81, US writer and producer best known for helping create the record-breaking M*A*S*H television series. He also wrote for radio and the stage, including the hit A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. He also worked on the films Tootsie, Oh God and And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself.
Links: CNN

August 28, 2009: Adam Goldstein, 36, US disc jockey and media personality known as DJ AM. He died of a suspected drug overdose just months after surviving a plane crash.
Links: NY Daily News

August 26, 2009: Ellie Greenwich, 68, US songwriter who wrote or co-wrote hits including River Deep, Mountain High, Leader of the Pack, Leader of the Pack, Chapel of Love and Do Do Run Run. She also coproduced Kentucky Woman with Neil Diamond.
Links: BBC

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

August 6, 2009: John Hughes, 59, US film director whose box-office hits included Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Home Alone and Planes, Trains and Automobiles, of a heart attack.
Links: BBC

August 1, 2009: Titus (Baatin) Glover, 25, US rapper who founded Slum Village.
Links: Detroit Free Press

May 20, 2009: Lucy Gordon, 29, British actress and model who had roles in the films The Four Feathers and Spider-Man 3. She was found dead in an apartment in Paris.
Links: Daily Mail

May 1, 2009: Danny Gans, 52, US comic and impressionist who was named Las Vegas entertainer of the year 11 times.
Links: CNN

April 28, 2009: Vern Gosdin, 74, American country singer known as "The Voice". His hits included Set 'em Up Joe, I Can Tell by the Way You Dance, I'm Still Crazy and a duet with Emmylou Harris, Yesterday's Gone.
Links: LA Times