CAJ
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Look who passed away in 2005
Sunday, January 23, 2005
Johnny Carson, host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years, died of emphysema. He was 79.
Saturday, February 12, 2005
Brian Kelly was the the father on the TV show "Flipper," and was left with a paralyzed right arm and leg and speech problems after in a 1969 motorcycle accident, pretty much ending his acting career. He was 2 days shy of 74 years old when he died of Pneumonia.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
John DeLorean created the stainless steel DeLorean car. He was born in Detroit January 6, 1925. His death was caused by a stroke. He was 80.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Johnnie Cochran, famous lawyer who got O.J. Simpson off, died from brain cancer. He was 67.
Saturday, April 2, 2005
Pope John Paul II, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, died after suffering heart and kidney failure. He was 84.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pianist Johnnie Johnson, who worked closely with Chuck Berry and insisted that he was the inspiration for the song "Johnny B. Goode," has died. He was 80. link
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Charlene Miller of Alpena went home this day after loosing a battle with cancer. She was too young.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
Former Israeli President Ezer Weizman, a flying ace who built up the nation's air force and helped bring about the Jewish state's first peace treaty with an Arab country, died Sunday. He was 80.
Thursday, April 26, 2005
Mason Adams played Charlie Hume on "Lou Grant" and was the voice for "With a name like Smuckers, it has to be good." He was 86.
Wednesday, May 18, 2005
Frank The Riddler Gorshin, best known for his role on the old "Batman" television series, died of lung cancer. He was 72.
Tuesday, May 24, 2005
Thurl Ravenscroft, known as the Voice of Tony the Tiger died of prostate cancer. He also did voices for the animated films "Cinderella," "The Jungle Book," "Mary Poppins," "Alice in Wonderland," "Lady and the Tramp" and many others. He was 91.
Friday, May 27, 2005
Eddie Albert, the actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres," has died. He was 99.
Friday, June 3, 2005
Actor Leon Askin, who gained popularity with the character of Gen. Albert Burkhalter in the 1960s television comedy "Hogan's Heroes," died in a Vienna hospital. The time and cause of death were not disclosed. He was 97.
Monday, June 6, 2005
Actor Dana Elcar, who played Peter Thronton on "MacGyver" died in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia. Elcar went blind from glaucoma a few seasons into the show, but his affliction was written into his character, and he remained on the show until the end of its run in 1992. He was 77.
Tuesday, June 7, 2005
Anne Bancroft, the actress who famously portrayed cradle-robbing seductress Mrs. Robinson in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," has died of uterine cancer. She was 73.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Paul Winchell was the voice of Tigger in many Winnie the Pooh movies, including Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too. He was 82.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
John Fiedler was the voice of Piglet in the Winnie the Pooh movies. He died the day after Paul Winchell, the voice of Tigger. He was 80.
Tuesday, July 5, 2005
James Stockdale known for being Ross Perot's running mate in 1992 died from Alzheimer's. He was 81.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, died Monday of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife. He was 91.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
James (Scotty) Doohan, Chief Engineer of the Starship Enterprise, died at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. It appears The Captain beamed up Scotty. He was 85.
Monday, August 1, 2005
King Fahd, Saudi Arabia's ruler since 1982, has died. He was 82
Sunday, August 7, 2005
ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings died from lung cancer. He was diagnosed on April 5. He was 67.
Monday, August 8, 2005
Barbara Bel Geddes, the veteran stage and screen actress known to millions as matriarch Miss Ellie Ewing on CBS serial Dallas, died Monday of lung cancer at her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She was 82-years old.
Friday, September 2, 2005
Bob Gilligan Denver, the first mate in "Gilligan's Island," died on Friday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 70.
Saturday, September 3, 2005
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who had spent 33 years on the Supreme Court, oversaw the high court's conservative shift and presided over the impeachment trial of President Clinton, died Saturday evening. He was 80 years old.
Sunday, September 25, 2005
Don Adams, known as secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart," has died of a lung infection. He was 82. (Barbara Feldon, Agent 99 is 73 years old and still kicking.)
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Tommy Bond was an actor who played Butch in the "Our Gang" show and Jimmy Olson in the Superman serials in the '40s. He died of heart disease. He was 81.
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Elmer "Len" Dresslar Jr., who sang 'Ho, Ho, Ho' in TV ads with a booming voice for the Jolly Green Giant, has died. He was 80.
Thursday, November 24, 2005
Actor Pat Morita, best known his Oscar nominated role as Mr. Miyagi in "The Karate Kid," has died. He was 73.
Saturday, November 26, 2005
Stan Berenstain, who with his wife created the popular children's books about the Berenstain Bears, has died. He was 82.
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Linda McFly, Marty's sister, on the Back To The Future movies died from breast cancer. She was 43.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Richard Pryor, comedian credited for paving the way for a generation of comic performers, died of a heart attack. He was 65.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Minnesota senator and two time presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy has died. He was 89.
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Former Wisconsin Sen. William Proxmire, elected to the Senate in 1957 in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, has died. He became Congress' leading scourge of big spending and government waste through the monthly "Golden Fleece" awards, which he began in 1975 to point out what he thought were frivolous expenditures of taxpayers' money, became a Washington tradition. He was 90.
Friday, December 16, 2005
John Spencer (West Wing actor) who whould have been 59 next week, died of a heart attack. He was 58.
Monday, December 26, 2005
Vincent Schiavelli, the actor who played the ghost who haunted subway cars in "Ghost " died from Lung cancer. He was 57.
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