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January 20, 2012: Etta James, 73, US R&B and blues singer whose hits included At Last, I'd Rather Go Blind and Tell Mama.
Link: USA Today

October 5, 2011: Steve Jobs, 56, US entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Computers. Jobs was a visionary who first built and then revitalised his own company and revolutionised personal technology with such products as the Macintosh computer, iPod, iPhone and iPad, and had a hand in the success of the Pixar animation company.
Link: CNN

October 5, 2011: Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk musician, of cancer. Known for his distinctive guitar playing, he had a long and successful career both as a solo artist and with the band Pentangle.
Link: BBC

September 19, 2011: Johnny James, former Brisbane, Australia radio announcer with stations 4BC and 4BH.
Link: Jocks Journal

September 13, 2011: David Jull, 66, Australian politician and former radio and TV presenter, newsreader and executive.
Link: Wikipedia

May 25, 2011: Terry Jenner, 66, Australian test cricketer and commentator who was a mentor to spin bowler Shane Warne.
Link: BBC

March 4, 2011: Charles Jarrott, 83, British film and television director of Anne of a Thousand Days fame.
Link: CBS

February 5, 2011: Brian Jacques, 71 British children's author best known for his 21-book Redwall series.
Link: Wikipedia

January 15, 2011: Harvey James, 58, musician with popular 1970s Australian band Sherbet, of cancer. He also played with bands Ariel and Mississippi.
Link: Australian

February 18, 2010: Lionel Jeffries, 83, British actor whose films included St Trinian's. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Trials of Oscar Wilde and The Nun's Story. He appeared in the TV series Woof!, Inspector Morse and Tom, Dick and Harriet, and directed films including The Railway Children, Wombling Free and The Water Babies.
Link: Herald Scotland

December 17, 2009: Jennifer Jones, 90, US actress born Phylis Lee Isley, who starred in films including The Song of Bernadette, Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing and Farewell to Arms.
Link: CNN

June 25, 2009: Michael Jackson, 50, US singer dubbed the King of Pop. He was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack and could not be revived. Jackson had a string of hits with the Jackson 5 in the 1970s before launching a spectacular solo career, relaeasing many multimillion-selling albums including Thriller and Bad.
Links: TMZ; CNN

March 9, 2008: Maurice Jarre, 84, Oscar-winning composer whose film scores included Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago.
Links: CNN

February 5, 2009: Lux Interior, 62, frontman with US punk band The Cramps, from a heart condition. Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, he formed the group in 1973 with his wife Poison Ivy, and took his stage name from a phrase in a car brochure.
Links: BBC

December 12, 2008: Van Johnson, 92, US movie star whose films included The Caine Mutiny, Battleground, A Guy Named Joe and Brigadoon.
Links: Washington Post

July 9, 2008: Charles Joffe, 78, US producer who worked alongside Jack Rollins and director Woody Allen, and won an Oscar for Annie Hall.
Links: CNN

April 14, 2008: Ollie Johnston, 95, US animator who was the last of Walt Disney's "Nine Old Men" who helped create the studio's classic films, including Bambi, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and The Aristocats.
Links: CNN

December 15, 2007: Clem Jones, 89, visionary long-serving lord mayor of Brisbane, Australia. Jones was also in charge of rebuilding Darwin in 1975 in the wake of Cyclone Tracy.
Links: Courier-Mail; ABC

October 23, 2007: John Ilhan, 42, Australian Turkish businessman who became a multi-millionaire building the Crazy John's mobile phone retail chain. He died suddenly, while walking, of a suspected heart attack. The Times

September 30, 2007: Milan Jelic, 51, president of Bosnia's Serb Republic, of a heart attack.
Links: MSNBC

September 16, 2007: Robert Jordan, 58, US author of the Wheel of Time fantasy series, of a rare blood disease.
Links: CNN

August 30, 2007: Michael Jackson, 65, British journalist, writer and broadcaster known as "the beer hunter", from Parkinson's disease. A champion of "real ale", his World Guide to Beer was first published in 1977.
Links: Guardian; NY Times

July 11, 2006: Lady Bird Johnson, 94, widow of former US president Lyndon Baines Johnson, born Claudia Alta Taylor. She not only supported her husband's political ambitions, but built up a media empire in Texas.
Links: CNN

March 19, 2007: Luther Ingram, 69, US singer who had a hit with If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don't Want to Be Right). He also co-wrote Respect Yourself, which was a hit for the Staples Sisters.
Links: CNN

March 10, 2007: Richard Jeni, 45, US standup comedian and actor, apparently by suicide. Jeni was in the film The Mask made appearances on the Tonight Show and the sitcoms Everybody Hates Chris and Married: With Children.
Links: CNN

March 8, 2007: John Inman, 71, British actor who famously played Mr Humphries in 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?. He was also a popular stage pantomime dame.
Links: ShowBritz; BBC

February 13, 2007: Elizabeth Jolley, 83, British-born Australian author of 14 novels and four short-story collections.
Links: Adelaide Now; ABC