Posted on 12/12/2009 6:49:50 PM PST by Richard Kimball
It may be a little early to start this, but this is http://www.findagrave.com's annual list of notable people who have died during the current year(more info on each person at source link):
Michael Jackson; musician, entertainer
Patrick Swayze; actor, dancer
Walter Cronkite; communist sympathizer (it doesn't say that on the site)
Farrah Fawcett; actress
Dom DeLuise; entertainer
Edward Kennedy; US Senator and ...
Paul Harvey; news commentator
Beatrice Arthur; actress
Ed McMahon; television personality
Ricardo Montalban; actor
Soupy Sales; comedian
Karl Malden; actor
David Carradine; actor
Mary Travers; vocalist
James Whitmore; actor
Les Paul; musician
Jim Owens; college football coach and NFL player
Henry Gibson; actor
Gene Barry; actor
Shelby Singleton; music producer
The Taco Bell dog
Pat Hingle; actor
Natasha Richardson; actress
Eunice Shriver;
Gale Storm; actress
Billy Mays; pitch man
Troy Smith; founder of Sonic Drive Inn
Billy Powell; musician, survived crash that killed most of the band members of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
Frank McCourt; Author of Angela's Ashes
There are more at the site.
I love that Ted Kennedy was listed AFTER Dom Deluise. From what I’ve read since he died, Patrick Swayze was a good man, but Paul Harvey is the most irreplaceable on the list.
Whenever I read these lists, I think of Jim Caroll’s “Those Are The People Who Died.”
And this year, Jim himself, is on that list.
When I go to visit my moms gravesite, I pass a small headstone with the name of a boy that died when he was only 18 months.
It is a sad reminded of how fragile life is.
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