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Celebrity Deaths
Gary Carter
February 16, 2012
A Hall of Fame catcher for Montreal Expos and New York Mets whose heroics led to 1986 World Series Championship for New York mets died of malignant brain tumor at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was 57.
Whitney Houston
February 11, 2012
A pop superstar, who saw her career top the music charts in the 1980s and 1990s and starred in numerous movies but had troubled personal life, including drug addictions and tumulous marriage to fellow singer Bobby Brown, was found unresponsive in her room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California and pronunced dead later. She was 48.
Jeffrey Zaslow
February 10, 2012
A Wall Stree Journal reporter who co-wrote 2008 bestseller "The Last Lecture" with late Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about life lessons from a dying man died in a car crash in northern Michigan. He was 53.
Jill Kinmont Boothe
February 9, 2012
The national women's slalom champion who was paralyzed below her shoulders after a crash during a race in 1955 which would have put her on the U.S. Olympic ski team died of complications related to surgery at a hospital in Carson City, Nevada. She was 75.
Ben Gazzara
February 3, 2012
An alumus of the Actors Studio and a winner of an Emmy Award who found fame on Broadway in the 1950s and appeared in more than 100 films and TV movies during the prolific 60-year acting career died of pancreatic cancer in New York City. He was 81.
Wislawa Szymborska
February 1, 2012
A secretive Polish poet who was called Poland's "guardian spirit" by Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1996 died of lung cancer in Krakow. She was 88.
Angelo Dundee
February 1, 2012
A Hall of Fame boxing trainer who trained Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard and 15 world champions in a long career died of a complication from a blood clot developed during a flight home after visiting Ali for his 70th birthday at a rehabilitation center in Clearwater, Florida. He was 90.
Kevin H. White
January 27, 2012
A four-term mayor of Boston who led the city during years of racial violence and economic stagnation from 1968 to 1984 died after suffering Alzheimer's disease since 2003 at his home in Beacon Hill section of Boston. He was 82.
Joe Paterno
January 22, 2012
The college football's winningest coach whose long and distinguished career was cut short and starnished by a child sex abuse scandal involving one of his assistant coaches died of lung cancer. He was 85.
Etta James
January 20, 2012
A lengendary blues singer who began her career as a teenager in 1955 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 died of complications of leukemia at a hospital in Riverside, California. She was 73.
Sarah Burke
January 19, 2012
A pioneer of the freestyle halfpipe skiing who was the best known athlete in her sport and led the effort to include the halfpipe in the 2014 Winter Olympics died of injuries suffered in an accident during her training run at Park City Mountain resort in Utah. She was 29.
Gevork Vartanian
January 10, 2012
A former Soviet intelligence agent who helped foil a Nazi plot to assassinate Soviet leader Josef Stalin, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill when they met in Tehran in November 1943 died of an unspecified illness. He was 87.
Eve Arnold
January 4, 2012
One of the first female photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and best known for her candid photos of Hollywood celebrities died at a nursing home in London, England. She was 99.
Gordon Hirabayashi
January 2, 2012
One of three Japanese Americans who refused to comply with Executive Order 9066, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in February 1942 which gave military authorities the power to restrict the freedom of people of Japanese ancestry on the West Coast following the Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor died in Edmonton, Canada. He was 93.
Notable Deaths In 2011
Vaclav Havel - December 18, 2011
Kim Jong Il December 17, 2011
Joe Simon - December 14, 2011
George Whitman - December 14, 2011
Harry Morgan - December 7, 2011
Bill McKinney - December 1, 2011
Jim Rathmann - November 23, 2011
Lana Peter - November 22, 2011
Ted Forstmann - November 20, 2011
Russell Garcia - November 20, 2011
John Neville - November 19, 2011
Walt Hazzard - November 18, 2011
Jon B. Lovelace - November 16, 2011
Evelyn Lauder - November 12, 2011
Bil Keane - November 8, 2011
Joe Frazier - November 7, 2011
Andy Rooney - November 4, 2011
John Randolph Hearst, Jr. - November 4, 2011
Dorothy Rodham - November 1, 2011
Gil Cates - October 31, 2011
Robert Pritzker - October 27, 2011
Daniel Burke - October 26, 2011
John McCarthy - October 24, 2011
Crown Prince Sultan ibn Abdulaziz - October 22, 2011
Carl Lindner, Jr. - October 17, 2011
Dan Wheldon - October 16, 2011
Edward Arthur Pauls - October 9, 2011
Al Davis - October 8, 2011
Steven P. Jobs - October 5, 2011
Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth - October 5, 2011
Charles Napier - October 5, 2011
Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. - October 3, 2011
Wangari Maathai - September 25, 2011
Arch West - September 20, 2011
Dolores Hope - September 19, 2011
Sen. Charles H. Percy - September 17, 2011
Kara Kennedy - September 17, 2011
Eleanor Mondale - September 17, 2011
Andy Whitfield - September 11, 2011
Cliff Robertson - September 10, 2011
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