Those we have lost this year

[thatcrazycajun]

Going back over my "In Memoriam" LJ posts for the year now almost concluded, I tally the following tragic losses:

01/09 David John Alway, 1950-2007 - filk music fan, performer and composer
01/18 Arthur Joseph Buchwald, 1925-2007 - commentator, humorist and author
01/31 Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins, 1944-2007 - commentator, humorist and author

02/08 Vickie Lynn Hogan Marshall Stern (AKA Anna Nicole Smith), 1968-2007 - actress and model

04/09 John Lewis "Johnny" Hart, 1931-2007 - cartoonist
04/12 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1922-2007 - author
04/13 Roscoe Lee Browne, 1925-2007 - actor
04/26 Robert George Pickett (AKA Bobby "Boris" Pickett), 1938-2007 - singer/songwriter

05/03 Walter Marty Schirra, Jr., 1923-2007 - astronaut
05/15 Jerome Lamon Falwell, D.D., 1933-2007 - television evangelist and political activist

06/24 Christopher Michael Benoit, 1967-2007 - professional wrestler

07/15 Douglas N. Marlette, 1949-2007 - cartoonist
07/31 Thomas Martin Snyder, 1936-2007 - television host and journalist

08/12 Mervyn Edward Griffin, Jr., 1925–2007 - television host and producer

09/06 Luciano Alberto Pavarotti, 1935-2007 - opera tenor
09/07 Madeleine L'Engle Camp, 1918-2007 - author
09/22 Alice June Ghostley, 1926-2007 - actress

10/01 Lois Hooker Maxwell, 1927-2007 - actress
10/18 Joseph Abraham Gottlieb (AKA Joey Bishop), 1918-2007 - television host and comedian
10/29 Porter Wayne Wagoner, 1927-2007 - singer/songwriter
10/30 Robert Gerard Goulet, 1933-2007 - singer and actor

11/12 Norman Kingsley Mailer, 1923– 2007 - commentator, playwright and author
11/27 James Robert Cade, MD, Ph.D., 1927-2007 - scientist and inventor
11/30 Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, Jr., 1938-2007 - daredevil motorcyclist

12/17 Daniel Grayling Fogelberg, 1951-2007 - singer/songwriter
12/18 William A. Strauss, theater director, musical parodist, lecturer, philanthropist and historian

Did I miss anyone?
UPDATE, 12/20, 10:38a: It seems I did miss a few, besides the ones my readers posted in response: Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers (two former regular panelists of the original Match Game TV game show, now being rerun on GSN), Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, Ingmar Bergman and Deborah Kerr. Mea maxima culpa.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Paul Tibbetts, pilot of Enola Gay

Jennifer Dunn, congresswoman (W-WA), maven of cross-party politics.

Eric Blackwell, Charles May, and Todd Ivens, the first casualties of the Civillian Space Program, killed at Mojave when a test rocket blew up

John Backus, creator of FORTRAN

Brad Delp, the voice of the band Boston and co-creator of the finest debut album known to man.

And how the hell did an old space rat like me miss Wally Schirra?

[poltr1]

If you're looking for a canonical list, here's the 'Deaths in 2007' page from Wikipedia.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Dave was born in 1950, not 1951. Someone subtracted his age (56) from 2007, but didn't realize it was before his birthday, so the 1951 has gotten spread around.

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Apologies for the error, and thank you for letting me know. What was his middle name, BTW?

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

John

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Matt, You NEED a more cheerful hobby.