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pirate44
12-16-2004, 09:47 AM
im sure there are probably more. i guess it alll depends on who the writers of these lists consider celebrities.

Arthur Hailey, author best known for Airport, died November 25 at the age of 84.
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, died November 11 at the age of 75.
Howard Keel, actor/singer best known for his roles in musicals like Annie Get Your Gun, died November 7 at the age of 85.
Ken Caminiti, all star baseball player, died October 10 at the age of 41.
Christopher Reeve, actor best known for his role as Superman, died October 10 at the age of 52.
Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, died October 5 at the age of 82.
Janet Leigh, actress best known for Psycho, died October 3 at the age of 77.
Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer, died September 28 at the age of 77.
Johnny Ramone, founder of the Ramones, died September 15 at the age of 55.
Julia Child, chef, died August 13 at the age of 91.
Fay Wray, actress best known for King Kong, died August 8 at the age of 96.
Paul 'Red' Adair, famed oil well fire fighter, died August 7 at the age of 89.
Rick James, musician best known for Super Freak, died August 6 at the age of 56.
Isabel Sanford, actress best known as Louise Jefferson on the tv series The Jeffersons, died July 9 at the age of 86.
Marlon Brando, actor, died July 1 at the age of 80.
Ray Charles, musician, died June 10 at the age of 73.
Ronald Reagan, one time president of the United States, died June 5 at the age of 93.
Tony Randall, actor best known as Felix on the tv series The Odd Couple, died May 17 at the age of 84.
June Taylor, dancer and choreographer best known for the Jackie Gleason show, died May 17 at the age of 86.
Alan King, comedian, died May 9 at the age of 76.
Estee Lauder, cosmetics queen, died April 24 at the age of 97.
Peter Ustinov, actor, died March 28 at the age of 82.
Jan Berry, musician best known as half of Jan & Dean, died March 26 at the age of 62.
Robert Pastorelli, actor best known as house painter Eldin on Murphy Brown, died March 8 at the age of 49.
Paul Winfield, actor best known as the father in Sounder, died March 7 at the age of 62.
Marge Schott, one time owner of the Cincinnati Reds, died March 2 at the age of 75.
Jack Paar, talk show pioneer, died January 27 at the age of 85.
Bob Keeshan, better known as Captain Kangaroo, died January 23 at the age of 76.

Hupernikomen
12-16-2004, 09:49 AM
yasser arafat was a celebrity?? I take it this is a world-wide celebration thing.

kaorder1999
12-16-2004, 09:52 AM
thats a lot of famous people and a few I have never heard of!

pirate44
12-16-2004, 10:03 AM
Originally posted by Hupernikomen
yasser arafat was a celebrity?? I take it this is a world-wide celebration thing.
i actually weeded out several foreign people i never heard of, but i figured this guy was well known enough to leave on here.

big daddy russ
12-16-2004, 11:20 AM
I never heard that Ray Charles had died. I must be really out of the loop.

gobbler grad
12-16-2004, 06:31 PM
Capt. Kangaroo was my favorite...:(

bullfrog_alumni_02
12-16-2004, 06:37 PM
Originally posted by Hupernikomen
yasser arafat was a celebrity?? I take it this is a world-wide celebration thing. yea he was well known for a few major things, first and fore-most being that he was the most unimportant leader on the planet:D