Big list of 1994 deaths
Dave Watson
Straight, a weekly Vancouver, B.C., Canada paper. It's fairly sprinkled
with people of local relevance, and a lot of the famous.
Harry Adaskin, violinist, author and broadcaster, 92.
Claude Akins, actor, 75.
Lindsay Anderson, film director, 71.
Danny Barker, musician, 85.
Baron Marcel Bich, founder of the Bic group, 79.
Bobby łVamp˛ Blair, local Canada Post employee and proud transvestite, 61.
Tom Blake, California lifeguard and inventor of the finned surfboard, 92.
Robert Bloch, author of Psycho, 76.
Julius Boros, golfer, 74.
Tommy Boyce, songwriter, 55.
James Bradley, the last surviving serviceman depicted in the photograph of
the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, 70.
Lee Brilleaux, British musician who founded the band Dr. Feelgood, 41.
John Broderick, Vancouver environmental activist, 78.
Sorrell Brooke, actor, 64.
Charles Bukowski, drunken poet and novelist, 73.
Hans Burkhardt, painter, 89.
Cab Calloway, bandleader and singer, 86.
John Candy, Canadian comic actor, 43.
MacDonald Carey, actor, 81.
Ken Carson, singer in the Sons of the Pioneers, 79.
James Clavell, author, 69.
Kurt Cobain, musician, 27.
Sir Robert Cockburn, WWII hero, 85.
Charles Comfort, Canadian painter, 93.
William Conrad, actor, 73.
Joseph Cotten, actor, 88.
łPapa˛ John Creach, blues musician and violinist, 76.
John Curry, former Olympic champion figure skater, 44.
Peter Cushing, actor, 81,
Agostinho da Silva, Portuguese philosopher and rebel, 88.
Jeffrey Dahmer, murderer, 34.
Jacques Doucet, impressionist artist, 69.
Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man, 80.
Erik Erikson, pschoanalyst who coined the phrase łidentity crisis˛, 91.
Sherm Feller, composer and Boston Red Sox announcer, 75.
Avery Fisher, American philanthropist, 87.
Elbie Fletcher, baseball player from the 1930s and ą40s, 77.
Betty Furness, actress and consumer advocate, 78.
Danny Gatton, musician, 49.
Vitas Geriulaitas, tennis player, 40.
Mary Alice Gillespie, den mother of U.B.C.ąs Sigma Phi Delta from 1962-84, 108.
Elizabeth Glaser, AIDS activist, 47.
Albert Goldman, mean biographer, 66.
William Graf, film producer, 82.
Nadia Gray, actress from La Dolce Vita, 70.
Clement Greenberg, Canadian art critic and advocate of abstract
expressionism, 85.
Frank Griffiths, Vancouver media magnate and owner of the Canucks, 77.
Lewis Grizzard, author, 47.
Frank Hardy, author, 76.
Jean Trilby Higinbotham, Vancouver artist and teacher, 71.
Erich Honecker, ruler of East Germany who built the Berlin Wall, 81.
Nicky Hopkins, musician, 50.
Rudolf Hrusinsky, Czech actor, 73.
Chung Hung, Vancouver sculptor of the giant red spring at Robson Square
and the łclothespin˛ in Vanier Park, 48.
Elek Imredy, sculptor of Girl in a Wetsuit, 82.
Eugene Ionesco, playwright, 81.
Sally Jackson, fashionable Vancouverite and writer, 38.
Derek Jarman, British filmaker, 52.
J. J. Johannesen, B.C. music entrepreneur, 65.
Ruth Jordan, author, 72.
Raul Julia, actor, 54.
Louis Kaufman, violinist, 88.
Jack Kirby, comic book artist, 76.
Burt Lancaster, actor, 80.
Major Lance, soul singer, 55.
Walter Lantz, animator and creator of Woody Woodpecker, 93.
William J. Levitt, inventer of suburbia after WWII, 86.
Victor Lombardo, musician, 82.
Charles Lynch, Canadian journalist, 74.
James L. Lyons, founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival, 78.
Henry Mancini, composer, 70.
Giulietta Masina, Italian actress, 73.
Carmen McRae, jazz singer, 74.
Jimmy Miller, onetime producer for the Rolling Stones, 52.
Margaret Millar, prolific author of mysteries, 79.
George Austin łBud˛ Mintz, West Coast indigenous art expert, 57.
Cameron Mitchell, actor, 75.
Ken łDimwit˛ Montgomery, former drummer behind DOA, Modernettes and the
Pointed Sticks, 36.
Ray Munro, journalist, balloonist, hypnotist and recipient of the Order of
Canada in 1975, 72.
Harriet Nelson, actress, 85.
Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter, 52.
Richard Milhous Nixon, politician, claimed to not be a crook, 81.
Leighton Noble, singer and big band leader, 81.
Michael O'Donoghue, humourist and founding Saturday Night Live writer, 54.
Thomas łTip˛ OąNeill, American politician, 81.
William Obanhein, a sometime model for Norman Rockwell and the police
officer who arrested Arlo Guthrie for littering (as related in Aliceąs
Restaurant, 69.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American royalty and book editor, 64.
Peter Pantages, prominent Vancouver lawyer, 59.
Joe Pass, jazz guitarist, 65.
Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize-winning scientist, 93.
George Peppard, actor, 65.
Kristen Pfaff, musician, 27.
Roy Plunkett, discoverer of Teflon, 83.
Dennis Potter, British screenwriter, 59.
Lewis Puller Jr., Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Vietnam vet, 48.
Rory Ralston, Vancouver arts organizer, 43.
Dack Rambo, actor, 53.
Bill Rathie, first Vancouver mayor born in Vancouver (1962-66), ??
Martha Raye, actress, 78.
Fernando Rey, Spanish actor, 76.
Milton łShorty˛ Rogers, jazz trumpeter, 70.
Gilbert Roland, actor, 88.
Cesar Romero, actor, 86.
Stuart Roosa, American astronaut, 61.
Jerry Rubin, former Yippie turned yuppie, 56.
Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State under Kennedy and Johnson, 85.
Dick Sargent, actor, the second husband from Bewitched, 64.
Telly Savalas, actor, 70
Richard Scarry, childrenąs author, 74.
Roger Schiffer, Vancouver rock pioneer and co-founder of the Retinal Circus, 50.
Raymond Scott, composer of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies scores, 85.
Ayrton Senna, auto racer, 34.
Sonny Sharrock, jazz guitarist, 53.
Randy Shilts, journalist, 42.
Dinah Shore, actress-singer, 76.
Eric Show, former Padres pitcher, 37.
Arnold Cantwell Smith, first secretary-general of the British Commonwealth, 79.
Fred łSonic˛ Smith, musician, 44.
Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel singer, 89.
Michael Somes, dancer with the Royal Ballet, 77.
Roger Sperry, human brain researcher, 80.
Jule Styne, Oscar-winning songwriter, 88.
Barry Sullivan, actor, 81.
Kim Il Sung, North Korean dictator, 82.
Donald Swann, British composer and comedian, 70.
Jessica Tandy, actress, 85.
John Thomas, Vancouver film stunt and special effect coordinator, 46.
Marvelous Marv Throneberry, baseball player and actor, 60.
Ellsworth Vines, 1930s tennis star, 82.
Rick Watson, Vancouver writer born with cerebral palsy, 42.
Marion Williams, gospel singer, 66.
Quene Yip, Vancouver Chinese Studentsą soccer star of the 1920s and ą30s, 88.
Terence Young, film director, 79.
Mai Zetterling, actress, 68.
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(Dave Watson) wrote:
> Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter, 52.
I didn't know that Harry died. WHen did he die and what did he die from?
Thanks, Al
Dabe Dabe Murphy
And in the same vein:
>> Danny Gatton, musician, 49.
I didn't know that Danny died. When did he die and what did he die from?
This comes as a surprise to me, as Danny was a friend of my dad's (And, I
believe, dated my mom before she married my dad) ... Of course, I always
get him and Tommy Hannum [sp?] (plays for Ricky Van Shelton) confused
(Both, I think, were friends of my dad's (and jammed with him) back in
196[mumble].)
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>
> I didn't know that Danny died. When did he die and what did he die from?
> This comes as a surprise to me, as Danny was a friend of my dad's (And, I
> believe, dated my mom before she married my dad) ... Of course, I always
> get him and Tommy Hannum [sp?] (plays for Ricky Van Shelton) confused
> (Both, I think, were friends of my dad's (and jammed with him) back in
> 196[mumble].)
> Dabe
Danny Gatton committed suicide in the fall of last year. I feel it was a
great loss as I believe he was one of the best guitar players around. I
never got to see him but I loved to listen when given the chance. It's too
damn bad.
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Andy Hunn
>From: da...@wimsey.bc.ca (Dave Watson)
>Subject: Big list of 1994 deaths
>Date: 5 Jan 1995 08:05:29 GMT
More Entertainers who passed on in 1994:
Noah Beery, Jr. (Rockford Files)
Bill Bixby (Incredible Hulk)
Raymond Burr (Perry Mason)
Tom Ewell
Roger Miller (Singer-King of the Road)
River Phoenix (actor)
Frank Zappa (singer)
Dave Watson
Hunn) wrote:
>
> More Entertainers who passed on in 1994:
>
> Noah Beery, Jr. (Rockford Files)
I don't think he's dead yet,
> Bill Bixby (Incredible Hulk)
> Raymond Burr (Perry Mason)
> Tom Ewell
> Roger Miller (Singer-King of the Road)
> River Phoenix (actor)
1993
> Frank Zappa (singer)
1993
Allan Amanda C
: Dave Watson (da...@wimsey.bc.ca) wrote:
: : In article <andy.83....@shands.ufl.edu>, an...@shands.ufl.edu (Andy
: : Hunn) wrote:
: : >
: : > More Entertainers who passed on in 1994:
: : >
: : > Noah Beery, Jr. (Rockford Files)
: : I don't think he's dead yet,
: He is. Died in 1994. November, I think.
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Oh, no. Here we go again. He wasn't by any chance frying pancakes at
the time, was he?
Scott Dayman
Beery (Pidgy?), and gave his birth year and 1994.
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: More Entertainers who passed on in 1994:
: Frank Zappa (singer)
Frank actually passed away in December of '93, and composer/guitarist
is a *much* better way of describing him!
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Corby Gilmore
> Other well-known people who died in '94:
>
> Nicole Brown Simpson
> Ronald Goldman
I agree that they are both well-known now as a result of all the hoop-la
surrounding their deaths but, realistically, neither of these folks had
attained the notoriety required to make the "Big" list.
It is not my intention to trivialize their deaths in any way. I was
only trying to put the "big" list in proper context.
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> here's a bunch I did for the year end wrap-up issue of The Georgia
> Straight, a weekly Vancouver, B.C., Canada paper. It's fairly sprinkled
> with people of local relevance, and a lot of the famous.
>