The rules: Select 15 living celebrities, 5 of whom are under the age of 40. Should the celebrity you selected pass away, you receive a score of 100 minus the celebrity's age at the time of their death. You will find the current scoresheet below. For the complete list of celebrities who have bought the farm since this competition began in September of 2000, click here.

Rest in Peace...

Please note: I'm no longer actively maintaining this page, except for the scores above. To see updated celebrity deaths after August 31, 2007, visit http://www.torontomike.com/rest_in_peace/.

August 31, 2007 - Michael Jackson was 65. He was a leading world beer critic who praised the brews of Belgium and was known as The Beer Hunter.
August 29, 2007 - Richard Jewell was 44. He was the former security guard who was wrongly linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing and then waged a decade-long battle with news organizations to defend his reputation.
August 29, 2007 - Hilly Kristal was 75. He was the founder and owner of the New York rock club CBGB, a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads.
August 20, 2007 - Leona Helmsley was 87. She helped her husband run a $5 billion hotel and real estate empire but sealed her reputation as the "queen of mean" during her 1989 trial for tax evasion.
August 17, 2007 - Max Roach was 83. He was the master percussionist whose rhythmic innovations and improvisations defined bebop jazz during a wide-ranging career where he collaborated with artists from Duke Ellington to rapper Fab Five Freddy.
August 16, 2007 - Sam Pollock was 81. He was the architect of the Montreal Canadiens dynasty of the 1960s and 1970s.
August 14, 2007 - Phil "The Scooter" Rizzuto was 89. He was the Hall of Fame shortstop during the New York Yankees' dynasty years and was beloved by a generation of fans who delighted in hearing him exclaim "Holy cow!" as a broadcaster.
August 12, 2007 - Merv Griffin was 82. He was the host of the "Merv Griffin Show" who created "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune."
August 6, 2007 - Lee Hazlewood was 77. He was the singer-songwriter who wrote the Nancy Sinatra hit "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'".
July 30, 2007 - Bill Walsh was 75. He was the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers.
July 30, 2007 - Ingmar Bergman was 89. He was an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema.
July 29, 2007 - Tom Snyder was 71. He was a talk show host whose smoke-filled interviews were a staple of late night television.
July 22, 2007 - Tammy Faye Messner was 65. As Tammy Faye Bakker she helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace.
July 14, 2007 - John Ferguson, Sr. was 68. He won the Stanley Cup five times as a player with the Montreal Canadiens and was the assistant coach for Canada's 1972 Summit Series victory over the Soviet Union.
July 11, 2007 - Lady Bird Johnson was 94. She was the former first lady who championed conservation and worked tenaciously for the political career of her husband, Lyndon B. Johnson.
July 11, 2007 - Honest Ed Mirvish was 92. He was the Toronto businessman and philanthropist best known for his world-famous "Honest Ed's" bargain store on the corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets.
July 3, 2007 - Bill Pinkney was 81. He was the last survivor of the original members of the musical group The Drifters.
July 3, 2007 - Beverly Sills was 78. She was the world-renowned soprano who became the most popular opera singer in America in modern times.
July 3, 2007 - Boots Randolph was 80. His spirited saxophone playing on "Yakety Sax" endeared him to fans for years on Benny Hill's TV show.
July 3, 2007 - Hy Zaret was 99. He wrote the haunting words to "Unchained Melody," one of the most frequently recorded songs of the 20th century.
June 29, 2007 - Joel Siegel was 63. He was best known as the resident movie critic on ABC's "Good Morning America" for 25 years.
June 27, 2007 - Liz Claiborne was 78. She was the fashion designer whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s.
June 25, 2007 - Chris Benoit was 40. He was a Canadian wrestling star in the WWE known as the "Canadian Crippler".
June 24, 2007 - Rod Beck was 38. He was a relief pitcher who wore a bushy mustache while earning 286 career saves, primarily for the San Francisco Giants.
June 23, 2007 - Hank Medress was 68. His vocals with the doo wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to the top of the charts.
June 15, 2007 - "Sensational" Sherri Martel was 49. She was a professional wrestler who defeated The Fabulous Moolah for the WWF Women's Title.
June 12, 2007 - Don Herbert was 89. He explained the wonderful world of science on television as "Mr. Wizard."
June 3, 2007 - Tony Thompson was 31. He sang on the 1990s R&B hits "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" and "She's Playing Hard to Get" as part of the group Hi-Five.
May 28, 2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly was 76. He was the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the "Tonight Show" and various game shows.
May 24, 2007 - Bobby "Uncle Bobby" Ash was 82. He was a popular Canadian children's entertainer during the 1960s and '70s.
May 15, 2007 - Jerry Falwell was 73. He was the leader of the religious right who battled in the political arena against abortion and homosexuality.
May 3, 2007 - Wally Schirra was 84. He was was one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts chosen for the Project Mercury, America's first effort to put men in space.
May 3, 2007 - Gordon Scott was 80. He was the "intelligent and nice" Tarzan in 1950s movies.
May 1, 2007 - Tom Poston was 85. He was the tall, pasty-faced comic who found fame and fortune playing a clueless everyman on such hit television shows as "Newhart" and "Mork and Mindy."
April 26, 2007 - Josh Hancock was 29. He was a relief pitcher who helped the St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series last season.
April 26, 2007 - Bobby "Boris" Pickett was 69. He was best known for singing and co-writing the 1962 hit novelty song, "Monster Mash".
April 23, 2007 - Boris Yeltsin was 76. As president he engineered the final collapse of the Soviet Union and pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market economy.
April 18, 2007 - Kitty Carlisle Hart was 96. Her long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera."
April 16, 2007 - Gaetan Duchesne was 44. He played 1028 NHL games for the Washington Capitals, Quebec Nordiques, Minnesota North Stars, San Jose Sharks and Florida Panthers.
April 14, 2007 - Don Ho was 76. He entertained tourists for decades wearing raspberry-tinted sunglasses and singing the catchy signature tune "Tiny Bubbles."
April 14, 2007 - June Callwood was 82. She was a social activist, journalist, broadcaster and writer who was often described as Canada's social conscience.
April 14, 2007 - Barry Nelson was 89. He was an MGM contract player during the 1940s who later had a prolific theatre career and was the first actor to play James Bond on screen.
April 12, 2007 - Roscoe Lee Browne was 81. His rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination.
April 12, 2007 - Kurt Vonnegut was 84. He captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
April 8, 2007 - Johnny Hart was 76. He was the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id.
April 5, 2007 - Bob Clark was 67. He was a film director best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story" and the Canadian sex comedy "Porky's".
April 4, 2007 - Eddie Robinson was 88. He was the Grambling State University football coach who sent more than 200 players to the NFL and won 408 games during a 57-year career.
March 21, 2007 - Calvert DeForest was 85. He was best known for his work as "Larry 'Bud' Melman" on Late Night with David Letterman.
March 19, 2007 - Stuart Rosenberg was 79. He was the prolific director of series television and theatrical films who partnered with Paul Newman on the widely popular prison drama "Cool Hand Luke" and several other movies.
March 15, 2007 - Bowie Kuhn was 80. His 15 tumultuous years as baseball commissioner coincided with free agency and multimillion-dollar salaries.
March 13, 2007 - Betty Hutton was 86. She was the energetic star of movie musicals like "Annie Get Your Gun."
March 11, 2007 - Richard Jeni was 49. He was the stand-up comedian who starred in the sitcom Platypus Man and appeared in the Jim Carrey film The Mask.
March 9, 2007 - Brad Delp was 55. He was the lead singer for Boston, a huge rock sensation in the 1970s.
March 8, 2007 - John Vukovich was 59. He was the longest-serving coach in Philadelphia Phillies history and a member of their only World Series championship team in 1980.
March 1, 2007 - Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was 89. He was the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and "court philosopher" of the Kennedy administration.
February 23, 2007 - Lothar-Guenther Buchheim was 89. He was the German author and art collector best known for his autobiographical novel, "Das Boot."
February 22, 2007 - Dennis "DJ" Johnson was 52. He was part of three NBA champions with the Boston Celtics and one with the Seattle SuperSonics.
February 19, 2007 - Celia Franca was 85. She was the founder of The National Ballet of Canada and its artistic director for 24 years.
February 9, 2007 - Hank Bauer was 84. He was the hard-nosed ex-Marine who returned to baseball after being wounded during World War II and went on to become a cornerstone of the New York Yankees dynasty of the 1950s.
February 8, 2007 - Anna Nicole Smith was 39. She was the reality TV star and former model who appeared in The Naked Gun 33 1/3.
February 6, 2007 - Frankie Laine was 93. He was the big-voiced singer whose string of hits made him one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s.
February 5, 2007 - Steve Barber was 67. He was the first 20-game winner in modern Baltimore Orioles history and the losing pitcher in one of baseball's wildest no-hitters.
February 1, 2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti was 95. He composed a pair of Pulitzer Prize-winning operas and founded the Spoleto arts festivals in the United States and Italy.
January 30, 2007 - Sidney Sheldon was 89. He won awards in three careers - Broadway theater, movies and television - then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men.
January 27, 2007 - Gump Worsley was 77. He was the Hall of Fame goaltender who played 21 years in the NHL with the New York Rangers, Montreal Canadiens and Minnesota North Stars.
January 22, 2007 - John Majhor was 53. He was the host of City-TV's "Toronto Rocks" and "Lunch Television" as well as a popular disc jockey on CHUM-AM.
January 19, 2007 - Denny Doherty was 66. He was the Canadian quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, who were known for their soaring harmonies on hits like "California Dreamin’" and "Monday, Monday."
January 19, 2007 - Scott Bigelow was 45. He was the professional wrestler better known as Bam Bam Bigelow.
January 17, 2007 - Percy Saltzman was 91. He was the first man to appear on Canadian English-language television and the first meteorologist employed by the CBC.
January 10, 2007 - Yvonne De Carlo was 84. She played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters."
January 9, 2007 - Iwao Takamoto was 81. His creation of Scooby-Doo, the cowardly dog with an adventurous heart, captivated audiences and endured for generations.
January 4, 2007 - Earl Reibel was 76. He made headlines in 1955 when he bested then Detroit Red Wings teammate Gordie Howe in scoring.
January 1, 2007 - Darrent Williams was 24. He was a cornerback with the Denver Broncos of the NFL who just finished the season with 88 tackles and four interceptions.
December 30, 2006 - Saddam Hussein was 69. He was the former Iraqi leader who was hanged in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
December 27, 2006 - Gerald Ford was 93. He was the 38th president of the United States of America.
December 25, 2006 - James Brown was 73. He was the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a founder of rap, funk and disco.
December 18, 2006 - Joe Barbera was 95. He was half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones.
December 13, 2006 - Peter Boyle was 71. He was the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond."
December 10, 2006 - Augusto Pinochet was 91. He was Chile's military leader from 1973-90, during which time more than 3,000 people were killed or "disappeared".
December 8, 2006 - Jose Uribe was 47. He played 10 seasons in the major leagues from 1984 to 1993, mostly with the San Francisco Giants.
November 27, 2006 - Larry Henderson was 89. He was the first regular newsreader on CBC-TV's "The National News".
November 23, 2006 - Anita O'Day was 87. Her sassy renditions of "Honeysuckle Rose," "Sweet Georgia Brown" and other song standards made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and '50s.
November 22, 2006 - John Allan Cameron was 67. He was the Cape Bretoner who helped spread the gospel of Celtic music across Canada and beyond.
November 21, 2006 - Robert Altman was 81. He was the caustic and irreverent satirist behind “M*A*S*H,” “Nashville” and “The Player” who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions.
November 18, 2006 - Ruth Brown was 78. Her recordings of Teardrops in My Eyes, 5-10-15 Hours and (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean shot her to rhythm-and-blues stardom in the 1950s.
November 17, 2006 - Bo Schembechler was 77. He was the winningest coach in University of Michigan football history.
November 16, 2006 - Milton Friedman was 94. He was the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents.
November 10, 2006 - Jack Palance was 87. He was the craggy-faced menace in "Shane," "Sudden Fear" and other films who turned to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in "City Slickers."
November 9, 2006 - Ed Bradley was 65. He was a journalist who began reporting for CBS News in 1967.
November 7, 2006 - Jackie Parker was 74. He is a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame and won three Grey Cups with the Edmonton Eskimos.
November 1, 2006 - William Styron was 81. His 1979 novel "Sophie's Choice" was made into an acclaimed film and he won a Pulitzer Prize for "The Confessions of Nat Turner".
October 31, 2006 - P.W. Botha was 90. He was the apartheid-era president who led South Africa through its worst racial violence and deepest international isolation.
October 28, 2006 - Red Auerbach was 89. He coached the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s.
October 28, 2006 - Trevor Berbick was 52. He ended the career of Muhammad Ali when he defeated the legendary boxer in 1981 and he went on to become the world heavyweight champion in 1986 before losing the title to Mike Tyson that same year.
October 27, 2006 - Joe Niekro was 61. He was a former major league pitcher who twice won twenty games in a season and is Houston's career victory leader.
October 22, 2006 - Jane Wyatt was 96. She was the lovely, serene actress who for six years on "Father Knows Best" was one of TV's favorite moms.
October 14, 2006 - Freddy Fender was 69. He was the singer best known for his country hit Before The Next Teardrop Falls.
October 14, 2006 - Sid Adilman was 68. He was the long-time Toronto Star entertainment writer widely regarded as one of the greatest champions of Canadian movies, music, books and television.
October 14, 2006 - Gino Empry was 83. He was a long-time Toronto entertainment promoter and an icon in the international artistic community who represented some of the biggest names in show business, including Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope and Ella Fitzgerald.
October 11, 2006 - Cory Lidle was 34. He pitched for the New York Mets, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Oakland Athletics, Toronto Blue Jays, Cincinatti Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees going 12-15 for the Jays in 2003.
October 11, 2006 - Ed Benedict was 94. He was the legendary animator who put life, love and laughter in TV cartoon characters like Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Yogi Bear.
October 10, 2006 - Ian Scott was 72. He was the former Ontario attorney general who helped orchestrate the end of the Conservative party’s 40-year-rule in the Ontario legislature.
October 5, 2006 - Tamara Dobson was 59. She was the tall, stunning model-turned-actress who portrayed a strong female role as Cleopatra Jones in two "blaxploitation" films.
October 4, 2006 - R. W. Apple was 71. He was the colorful New York Times correspondent who charted the fall of Richard Nixon and covered wars from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf while having a parallel career as a food and travel writer.
September 27, 2006 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino was 90. She was accused of being "Tokyo Rose" who helped the Japanese propaganda effort during the Second World War by making anti-American radio broadcasts.
September 26, 2006 - Byron Nelson was 94. He was golf's elegant "Lord Byron" whose 11 straight tournament victories in 1945 stand as one of sports' most enduring records.
September 25, 2006 - Etta Baker was 93. She was a blues guitarist from North Carolina who influenced generations of musicians, from 1960s folkies to modern-day blues rockers.
September 19, 2006 - Mickey Hargitay was 80. He was the actor and world champion bodybuilder who was married to 1950s sex siren Jayne Mansfield and whose daughter is Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay.
September 18, 2006 - Floyd Curry was 81. He was a four-time Stanley Cup champion with the Montreal Canadiens who scored 105 goals and 204 points in 601 NHL games.
September 4, 2006 - Steve Irwin was 44. He was the hugely popular Australian television personality and conservationist known as the "Crocodile Hunter."
August 31, 2006 - Charlie Wagner was 93. He pitched for the Boston Red Sox during the 1930s and '40s and worked for the organization for 70 years.
August 31, 2006 - Glenn Ford was 90. He was the Canadian actor who starred in movies such as The Blackboard Jungle, Gilda and The Big Heat during a 53-year Hollywood career.
August 24, 2006 - Maynard Ferguson was 78. He was the Canadian jazz trumpeter known for his soaring high notes and for recording the hit theme song to the film Rocky.
August 22, 2006 - Frank Lennon was 79. He was the photographer best remembered for taking this picture of Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the 1972 Summit Series.
August 18, 2006 - Dr. George Mario (Jamie) Astaphan was 60. He provided Ben Johnson with the performance-enhancing drugs that helped fuel his rise and fall as an athlete.
August 15, 2006 - Bruno Kirby was 57. He was the veteran character actor who costarred in "When Harry Met Sally," "City Slickers" and many other films.
August 11, 2006 - Mike Douglas was 81. He was host of "The Mike Douglas Show" for 21 years.
August 4, 2006 - Bob Thaves was 81. He was the creator of the long-running comic strip "Frank & Ernest".
July 31, 2006 - Al Balding was 82. He became the first Canadian to win a PGA Tour event when he won the Mayfair Open in 1955.
July 26, 2006 - Bill Long was 88. He was one of the Ontario Hockey League's legendary coaches, coaching the London Knights for 12 years and compiling a 275-214-50 record.
July 22, 2006 - Jack Warden was 85. He was an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated actor who played gruff cops, coaches and soldiers in a career that spanned five decades.
July 18, 2006 - Mickey Spillane was 88. He was the creator of the hardboiled detective Mike Hammer.
July 13, 2006 - Red Buttons was 87. He was the the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then in a dramatic role won the 1957 Oscar as supporting actor in "Sayonara."
July 11, 2006 - Syd Barrett was 60. He was the troubled Pink Floyd co-founder who spent his last years in reclusive anonymity.
July 10, 2006 - June Allyson was 88. She was the sunny, cracked-voiced "perfect wife" of James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie heroes.
July 5, 2006 - Kenneth Lay was 64. He was the founder of Enron who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history.
June 24, 2006 - Aaron Spelling was 83. He was one of TV's most prolific producers, bringing "Charlie's Angels," "Dynasty," "Love Boat," "Beverly Hills 90210," "Melrose Place," "Starsky and Hutch," and "Fantasy Island" to the small screen.
June 12, 2006 - Ken Thomson was 82. He transformed the media empire founded by his father and became the richest person in Canada.
June 12, 2006 - Moe Drabowsky was 70. He was the prankster pitcher who delighted in putting pythons in teammates' shoes and wound up as a World Series star for the Baltimore Orioles when they won their first championship in 1966.
June 3, 2006 - Vince Welnick was 55. He took over as the Grateful Dead's keyboard player in 1990 after a succession of predecessors met untimely deaths.
May 28, 2006 - Paul Gleason was 67. He was the character actor best known for playing the angry high school principal Richard Vernon in "The Breakfast Club."
May 28, 2006 - Craig "Ironhead" Heyward was 39. He was a former NFL running back who played for the New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, Los Angeles Rams, and the Indianapolis Colts in an 11-year career.
May 24, 2006 - Desmond Dekker was 64. He brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as "Israelites."
May 24, 2006 - Ian Copeland was 57. He was a pioneering booking agent and music promoter credited with helping launch the "new wave" alternative rock movement of the 1970s and '80s with such bands as the Police, the B-52's and R.E.M.
May 21, 2006 - Freddie Garrity was 69. He was the lead singer of the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers who hit the top of the charts with the 1965 hit "I'm Telling You Now".
May 18, 2006 - Dan Ross was 49. He set the record for most Super Bowl receptions with the Cincinnati Bengals in 1982.
May 11, 2006 - Floyd Patterson was 71. He was a boxer who became the first two-time heavyweight champion of the world.
May 7, 2006 - Lorne Saxberg was 48. During his 27-year career at CBC, he was a widely recognized news anchor in television and radio, who was famous for his deeply sonorous voice and his easy-going delivery.
May 3, 2006 - Earl Woods was 74. He was Tiger Wood's father, the architect and driving force behind his phenomenal career.
April 30, 2006 - John Kenneth Galbraith was 97. He was the University of Toronto graduate who went on to become an influential liberal economist, best-selling author and presidential advisor.
April 28, 2006 - Steve Howe was 48. He was the former major league pitcher whose career took a downward spiral due to substance abuse.
April 27, 2006 - Pat Marsden was 69. He was the former sportscaster best known for his play-by-play coverage of the Canadian Football League telecasts in the 1970s and 1980s.
April 25, 2006 - Jane Jacobs was 89. She was the Toronto urban expert and social activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
April 24, 2006 - Steve Stavro was 78. He was the owner of Knob Hill Farms whose sports holdings once included his beloved Maple Leafs.
April 20, 2006 - Scott Brazil was 50. He was an Emmy-winning producer-director whose television shows included "The Shield" and "Hill Street Blues."
April 12, 2006 - June Pointer was 52. She was the youngest of the singing Pointer Sisters known for the 1970s and 1980s hits "I'm So Excited," "Fire," and "Slow Hand."
April 11, 2006 - Deshaun "Proof" Holton was 32. He was a member of rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem.
April 5, 2006 - Gene Pitney was 65. He was a singer best known for his 1963 hit "Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa."
March 27, 2006 - Stanislaw Lem was 84. He was a popular science fiction writer whose novel Solaris was filmed twice.
March 25, 2006 - Buck Owens was 76. He was the flashy rhinestone cowboy who shaped the sound of country music with hits like "Act Naturally" and brought the genre to TV on the long-running "Hee Haw."
March 22, 2006 - Bernard Lacoste was 74. He spent more than 40 years at the helm of the Lacoste clothing empire best known for its crocodile-embossed polo shirts.
March 20, 2006 - Oleg Cassini was 92. She designed the dresses that helped make Jacqueline Kennedy the most glamorous first lady in history
March 19, 2006 - Bill Beutel was 75. He was a longtime television news anchor and host of the show that became ABC's "Good Morning America."
March 15, 2006 - Roy Alvin "Red" Storey was 88. He played with the Toronto Argonauts, winning the Grey Cup in 1937 and 1938, and he was the Chief Referee of the NHL from 1950 to 1959.
March 13, 2006 - Peter Tomarken was 63. He was the host of the hit 1980s game show "Press Your Luck."
March 13, 2006 - Maureen Stapleton was 80. She was an Oscar-winning character actress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television.
March 11, 2006 - Slobodan Milosevic was 64. He was the former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, on trial for orchestrating a decade of conflict that killed 250,000 people and tore the Yugoslav federation asunder.
March 11, 2006 - Bernard "Boom Boom" Geoffrion was 75. He scored 371 goals in 14 seasons with the Montreal Canadiens in the 1950s and 1960s and another 22 goals in a two-year comeback with the New York Rangers from 1966 to 1968 before being named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972.
March 9, 2006 - Jim "Shaky" Hunt was 79. He was a fixture of Toronto's sports journalism scene for decades, writing for the Toronto Sun and appearing on the Fan 590 sports radio as a popular host.
March 7, 2006 - Gordon Parks was 93. He captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft."
March 7, 2006 - Dana Reeve was 44. She fought for better treatments and possible cures for paralysis through the Christopher Reeve Foundation, named for her late actor-husband.
March 6, 2006 - Kirby Puckett was 45. He carried the Minnesota Twins to World Series titles in 1987 and 1991 and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
March 3, 2006 - Johnny Jackson was 54. He was the drummer for the Jackson 5.
March 2, 2006 - Jack Wild was 53. He was best known for playing the Artful Dodger as a teenager in the 1968 film "Oliver!."
February 27, 2006 - Dennis Weaver was 81. He was the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western "Gunsmoke" and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in "McCloud."
February 25, 2006 - Darren McGavin was 83. He was "The Old Man," the narrator's father, in the classic Christmas movie "A Christmas Story".
February 25, 2006 - Don Knotts was 81. He was the the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show".
February 20, 2006 - Curt Gowdy was 86. He was the smooth voice of sports history, a welcome companion who brought listeners Ted Williams' last home run, the first Super Bowl and dozens of other dramatic moments.
February 19, 2006 - Billy Cowsill was 58. He was the lead singer of the 1960s family band The Cowsills.
February 13, 2006 - Peter Benchley was 65. His novel Jaws terrorized millions of swimmers even as the author himself became an advocate for the conservation of sharks.
February 10, 2006 - Franklin Cover was 77. He became a familiar face as George and Louise Jefferson's white neighbor in the long-running TV sitcom "The Jeffersons."
February 4, 2006 - Betty Friedan was 85. Her manifesto "The Feminine Mystique" became a best seller in the 1960s and laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.
February 4, 2006 - Al Lewis was 82. He was the cigar-chomping patriarch of "The Munsters" whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom.
January 31, 2006 - Coretta Scott King was 78. She turned a life shattered by her husband's assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality.
January 28, 2006 - Len Carlson was 68. He was the narrator in the popular Canadian cartoon Rocket Robin Hood, the voice of several Marvel cartoon characters including Captain America and Spider-Man's enemy The Green Goblin, and the voice of Bert Raccoon in CBC's The Raccoons.
January 24, 2006 - Chris Penn was 43. He was the brother of actor Sean Penn and starred in dozens of films.
January 20, 2006 - Anthony Franciosa was 77. His strong portrayals of moody, troubled characters made him a Hollywood star in the 1950s and '60s.
January 19, 2006 - Wilson Pickett was 53. He was the soul pioneer best known for the fiery hits "Mustang Sally" and "In The Midnight Hour."
January 14, 2006 - Shelley Winters was 85. She was the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue."
January 7, 2006 - Barry Cowsill was 50. He achieved teen idol status in the late 1960s as a member of the Partridge Family-inspiring pop act the Cowsills.
January 6, 2006 - Lou Rawls was 72. He was the velvet-voiced singer who started as a church choir boy and went on to record such classic tunes as "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine."
January 4, 2006 - Irving Layton was 93. His gritty, satiric and erotic poems left an indelible mark on Canada's literary landscape.
January 2, 2006 - Pasquale Carpino was 69. He was the Singing Chef in his double-breasted, bright blue smock who starred in Italian cooking shows.
January 1, 2006 - Patrick Cranshaw was 86. He was a veteran character actor who achieved cult-like status as fraternity brother "Blue" in "Old School".
December 28, 2005 - Michael Vale was 83. He was the actor best known for portraying sleepy-eyed Fred the Baker in Dunkin' Donuts commercials.
December 26, 2005 - Vincent Schiavelli was 57. He was the droopy-eyed character actor who appeared in scores of movies, including "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Ghost."
December 20, 2005 - Phyllis Gretzky was 64. She was the mother of The Great One who Wayne described as the glue that held her family together.
December 16, 2005 - John Spencer was 58. He played Leo McGarry on "The West Wing" and Tommy Mullaney on "L.A. Law".
December 13, 2005 - Stanley Tookie Williams was 51. He was the Crips gang co-founder whose case stirred a national debate about capital punishment versus the possibility of redemption.
December 10, 2005 - Richard Pryor was 65. He was the caustic yet perceptive actor-comedian who lived dangerously close to the edge both on stage and off.
December 1, 2005 - Wendie Jo Sperber was 47. She appeared in dozens of television shows and movies, including all three "Back to the Future" films.
November 30, 2005 - Stan Berenstain was 82. He created the popular children's books about the Berenstain Bears.
November 25, 2005 - Pat Morita was 73. He was the actor whose portrayal of the wise and dry-witted Mr. Miyagi in The Karate Kid earned him an Oscar nomination.
November 25, 2005 - George Best was 59. He was the dazzling soccer icon of the 1960s and 70s who revelled in a hard-drinking playboy lifestyle.
November 23, 2005 - Chris Whitley was 45. He was a chameleon singer-songwriter who oscillated between roots rock 'n' roll, blues and alt-rock.
November 17, 2005 - Ralph Edwards was 92. He was a broadcasting pioneer who spotlighted stars and ordinary people as host of the popular 1950s show "This Is Your Life."
November 14, 2005 - Eduardo Gory Guerrero was 38. He was a World Wrestling Entertainment superstar.
November 7, 2005 - Sheree North was 72. She appeared on many TV shows, most notable to readers of this site was her role as Kramer's mother Babs on "Seinfeld."
November 2, 2005 - Lloyd Bochner was 81. He was the Toronto-born actor best-known as Cecil Colby in "Dynasty."
October 26, 2005 - Elmer Dresslar, Jr. was 80. He was the voice of the Jolly Green Giant.
October 25, 2005 - Rosa Parks was 92. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, Rosa Parks said no. This simple decision that sparked a revolution.
October 23, 2005 - Shirley Horn was 71. She was a jazz singer and pianist who drew audiences close with a powerfully confidential, vibratoless delivery.
October 21, 2005 - Gordon Lee was 71. He was the chubby child actor who played Spanky McFarland's little brother Porky in the "Little Rascals" comedies.
October 18, 2005 - Al Widmar was 80. He was the Toronto Blue Jays pitching coach from 1980 to 1989 and helped in the development of Dave Stieb, Jim Clancy, Jimmy Key and David Wells under managers Bobby Cox, Jimy Williams and Cito Gaston.
October 15, 2005 - Jason Collier was 28. He was a five-year NBA player who spent his first three seasons with Houston before joining Atlanta in 2003, averaging 5.6 points and 2.9 rebounds in his career.
October 9, 2005 - Tom Cheek was 66. He was the beloved broadcaster who became the voice of baseball in Canada and called an incredible 4,306 consecutive Blue Jays games from Bill Singer's first pitch on April 7, 1977 until last June 3, when he skipped a game in Oakland because of his father's death.
October 3, 2005 - Nipsey Russell was 80. He was the actor known as "the poet laureate of television."
September 26, 2005 - Don Adams was 82. He was the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s TV spoof of James Bond movies, "Get Smart."
September 25, 2005 - Thomas Ross Bond was 79. He played Butch the bully in the "Our Gang" and "The Little Rascals" serials of the 1930s.
September 20, 2005 - Simon Wiesenthal was 96. He was the Holocaust survivor who helped track down Nazi war criminals following World War II, then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people.
September 6, 2005 - Bob Denver was 70. His portrayal of goofy castaway Gilligan on the 1960s TV show "Gilligan's Island," made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers.
September 4, 2005 - William H. Rehnquist was 80. He was a Chief Justice on the American Supreme Court where he served for 33 years.
September 2, 2005 - R.L. Burnside was 78. He was one of the last, great Mississippi bluesmen, whose raw, country blues was discovered late in his life.
August 24, 2005 - Brock Peters was 78. He played one of the main roles in the film "To Kill A Mockingbird".
August 23, 2005 - Robert Moog was 71. His name became synonymous with electronic music in the 1960s and '70s through the invention of his self-named synthesizers.
August 21, 2005 - Thomas Herrion was 23. He was an offensive lineman with the San Francisco 49ers.
August 11, 2005 - Gene Mauch was 79. He was a Major League Baseball player and manager who holds the record for most seasons managed without winning a pennant.
August 10, 2005 - Barbara Bel Geddes was 82. She was the winsome actress who rose to stage and movie stardom but reached her greatest fame as Miss Ellie Ewing in the long-running TV series "Dallas."
August 10, 2005 - Matthew McGrory was 32. He was the deep-voiced 7-foot-plus actor who moved from appearances on Howard Stern's radio show to a high-profile role as a gentle giant in the movie "Big Fish."
August 8, 2005 - Peter Jennings was 67. He was the Canadian-born broadcaster who delivered the news to Americans each night in five separate decades.
August 7, 2005 - Ibrahim Ferrer was 78. He was a leading voice with the hugely popular Buena Vista Social Club of vintage Cuban performers.
August 1, 2005 - King Fahd was 84. He was the long time ruler of Saudi Arabia.
July 27, 2005 - George Wallace was 88. He was an actor whose career spanned 50 years and was best known as Commando Cody in the film serial "Radar Men from the Moon."
July 25, 2005 - Edward Bunker was 71. He was the crime novelist who learned to write in prison and appeared in the movie "Reservoir Dogs" as Mr. Blue.
July 22, 2005 - Long John Baldry was 64. He was the Vancouver-based blues legend credited as one of the main forces in British blues, rock and pop music in the 1960s and first hit the top of the U.K. singles charts in 1967 with "Let the Heartaches Begin."
July 20, 2005 - James Doohan was 85. He was the Canadian-born burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty."
July 18, 2005 - Geraldine Fitzgerald was 91. She appeared in such classic 1930s films as Dark Victory and Wuthering Heights and later had a career on the New York stage.
July 15, 2005 - Chuck Cadman was 57. He was a member of Parliament from 1997 to 2005, representing the riding of Surrey North in Surrey, British Columbia.
July 6, 2005 - Ernest Lehman was 89. He wrote the scripts for the legendary musical "West Side Story" and the Alfred Hitchcock classic "North by Northwest".
July 5, 2005 - Renaldo "Obie" Benson was 69. He was one of four members of the Motown singing group Four Tops.
July 4, 2005 - Hank Stram was 82. He took the Kansas City Chiefs to two Super Bowls and was known for his inventive game plans and exuberance on the sideline.
July 4, 2005 - Gus Bodnar was 82. He was the NHL rookie of the year in 1943-44, totalling 142 goals and 396 points in 667 games in a career that included two Stanley Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
July 2, 2005 - Luther Vandross was 54. He was the Grammy award winning crooner best known for his hits "Here and Now" and "Any Love".
June 26, 2005 - Paul Winchell was 82. He was a ventriloquist, inventor and children's TV show host best known for creating the lispy voice of Winnie the Pooh's animated friend Tigger.
June 21, 2005 - Karl Mueller was 41. He was the bassist and cofounder of the rock band Soul Asylum.
June 21, 2005 - Ben Kerr was 75. He was the ageless crooner who spiced up the corner of Yonge and Bloor Streets with his smooth country singing.
June 21, 2005 - Bill LaForge was 53. He was a former coach of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks and several teams in the Canadian Hockey League.
June 15, 2005 - Lane Smith was 69. He was a longtime character actor who played a small-town district attorney who clashed with Joe Pesci in "My Cousin Vinny".
June 14, 2005 - Scott Young was 87. He was a prolific Canadian journalist and author as well as a father to the Godfather of Grunge.
June 10, 2005 - Dana Elcar was 77. He was the round-faced, balding actor whose real-life struggle with blindness was written into his role on the TV adventure series "MacGyver".
June 7, 2005 - Ann Bancroft was 73. She won the 1962 best actress Oscar as the teacher of a young Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" but achieved greater fame as the seductive Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate".
June 3, 2005 - George Mikan was 80. He was the "gentle giant" who a half-century ago brought fame and stability to the fledgling world of professional basketball and literally transformed the game.
May 31, 2005 - Oscar Brown Jr. was 78. He was a legendary rhythm & blues and jazz singer known for such compositions "The Snake," "Signifyin' Monkey" and lyrics for Miles Davis' "All Blues."
May 30, 2005 - John D'Amico was 67. He was a Hall of Fame hockey linesman who officiated close to 2,000 career NHL games.
May 27, 2005 - Eddie Albert was 99. He was an actor best known as the constantly befuddled city slicker-turned-farmer in television's "Green Acres".
May 27, 2005 - Domenic Troiano was 59. His unparalleled guitar playing talent led him to replace Robbie Robertson as the lead guitarist for Ronnie Hawkins and Randy Bachman in The Guess Who in the mid '70s.
May 24, 2005 - Thurl Ravenscroft was 91. He voiced Tony the Tiger for more than 50 years, along with roles in a number of animated Disney films, including "The Jungle Book", "Mary Poppins", "Alice in Wonderland" and "Lady and the Tramp". For "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", he sang "You're a Mean One, Mister Grinch" and he also lent his voice to thrill rides at California's Disneyland.
May 18, 2005 - Frank Gorshin was 72. He was the impressionist with 100 faces best known for his Emmy-nominated role as The Riddler on the old "Batman" television series.
May 2, 2005 - Bob Hunter was 63. He co-founded Greenpeace and was also a broadcaster, journalist, author and political hopeful. He was most recently the ecology news specialist for CHUM's Citytv and CP24 TV channels and the man behind Paper Cuts, a segment in which he wore a bathrobe and commented on the stories in the day's newspapers.
May 1, 2005 - William Bell was 78. He was an Emmy award-winning daytime TV soap writer, producer and co-creator of "The Young and the Restless" and "The Bold and the Beautiful".
April 28, 2005 - Reginald (Red) Horner was 95. He played for both the Toronto Marlies and the Maple Leafs, spending his entire career in Toronto scoring 42 goals and 110 assists with 1264 penalty minutes in a hall of fame career.
April 23, 2005 - John Mills was 97. He won an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a mute village idiot in "Ryan's Daughter" but he made his name in patriotic films during and after World War II including "The October Man," "Scott of the Antarctic," "Dunkirk" and "Ice Cold in Alex."
April 10, 2005 - Debralee Scott was 52. She appeared in the sitcom "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" and some of the "Police Academy" movies as Cadet Fackler.
April 6, 2005 - Prince Rainier III of Monoco was 81. He was Europe's longest-serving monarch who brought glamor to his Mediterranean principality with his marriage to American Hollywood star Grace Kelly.
April 5, 2005 - Saul Bellow was 89. He was a master of comic melancholy who in "Herzog," "Humboldt's Gift" and other novels both championed and mourned the soul's fate in the modern world.
April 4, 2005 - Frank Clair was 87. He transformed the Ottawa Rough Riders into a CFL powerhouse in the 1960s and 1970s and his all-time coaching mark stands at 174-124-8.
April 2, 2005 - Pope John Paul II was 84. He headed the Roman Catholic Church for 26 years.
March 31, 2005 - Mitch Hedberg was 37. He was a very funny comedian and frequent guest on Howard Stern's morning radio show and "Late Show With David Letterman".
March 31, 2005 - Terri Schiavo was 41. She was the brain-damaged Florida woman at the heart of a wrenching dispute over her fate that drew in the Congress and President Bush and ignited a media frenzy.
March 29, 2005 - Johnnie Cochran was 67. He became a legal superstar after helping clear O.J. Simpson during a sensational murder trial in which he uttered the famous quote "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit".
March 28, 2005 - Paul Hester was 46. He was the drummer from popular 1980s Australian rock band Crowded House.
March 26, 2005 - Paul Henning was 93. He created the hit TV show "The Beverly Hillbillies" and wrote its theme song.
March 24, 2005 - Barney Martin was 82. He was a former New York City detective who went into show business and became best known for playing Jerry Seinfeld's father Morty on the comedian's hit television series.
March 24, 2005 - Rod Price was 57. He was a founding member of the blues boogie band Foghat.
March 23, 2005 - David Little was 46. He was a durable linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers who was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1990.
March 22, 2005 - David Boone was 53. He was an all-star defensive lineman who helped the Edmonton Eskimos win five consecutive Grey Cups.
March 21, 2005 - Bobby Short was 80. He was the tuxedoed embodiment of New York style and sophistication who was a fixture at his piano in the Carlyle Hotel for more than 35 years.
March 17, 2005 - John Z. DeLorean was 80. He was the innovative automaker who left a promising career in Detroit to develop the short-lived gull-winged sports cars featured as a souped-up time travel machine in the "Back to the Future" movies.
March 17, 2005 - Andre Norton was 93. She was the science fiction and fantasy author who wrote the popular Witch World series.
March 16, 2005 - Danny Joe Brown was 53. He was the original lead singer of Southern rock collective Molly Hatchet.
March 12, 2005 - Bill Cameron was 62. He was a veteran broadcaster and author who was host of Global TV's Newsweek from 1978 to '83, an anchor on Toronto's City-TV in the 1980s and a broadcaster at the CBC after that.
March 10, 2005 - Nicole DeHuff was 30. She was an actress best known for playing Teri Polo's sister in "Meet the Parents".
March 9, 2005 - Chris LeDoux was 56. He was a world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about cowboys he knew on the rodeo circuit into a successful country music career.
March 8, 2005 - Teresa Wright was 86. She was the willowy actress who starred opposite Gary Cooper and Marlon Brando and won a supporting Academy Award in 1942 for "Mrs. Miniver".
March 7, 2005 - Debra Hill was 54. She co-wrote the horror classic "Halloween" and rose through Hollywood's ranks to become a pioneering woman producer.
March 6, 2005 - Chuck Thompson was 83. He was the Hall of Fame broadcaster whose deep voice and enthusiasm for the job entertained Baltimore sports fans for more than 50 years.
March 1, 2005 - Jef Raskin was 61. He was the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces.
February 25, 2005 - Tom Patterson was 84. He was a former magazine journalist and Second World War veteran who founded the internationally acclaimed Stratford Festival more than 50 years ago.
February 21, 2005 - Hunter S. Thompson was 67. He was the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America's underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas".
February 20, 2005 - Sandra Dee was 63. She was the blond beauty who attracted a large teen audience in the 1960s with films such as "Gidget" and "Tammy and the Doctor" and had a headlined marriage to pop singer Bobby Darin.
February 14, 2005 - Dick Weber was 75. He was one of bowling's first national stars and a three-time bowler of the year.
February 11, 2005 - Arthur Miller was 89. He was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright whose most famous fictional creation, Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," came to symbolize the American Dream gone awry.
February 9, 2005 - Jimmy Smith was 79. He helped change the sound of jazz by almost single-handedly introducing the soulful electric riffs of the Hammond B-3 organ.
February 8, 2005 - Keith Knudsen was 56. He was the longtime Doobie Brothers drummer who was part of the band during a string of hits that included "Taking it to the Streets" and "Black Water".
February 7, 2005 - Bob McAdorey was 69. He was a long time DJ with CHUM and later a Global TV fixture.
February 5, 2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema was 68. He was the president of Togo and Africa's longest-ruling leader.
February 4, 2005 - Ossie Davis was 87. He was an actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life.
February 4, 2005 - Max Schmeling was 99. He was the heavyweight champion whose two fights with Joe Louis set off a propaganda war between the Nazi regime and the United States on the eve of World War II.
February 3, 2005 - John Vernon was 72. He was the star of the 1960s drama "Wojeck" before moving on to a career in Hollywood.
February 3, 2005 - Dan Lee was 35. Dan Lee was 35. He was the Toronto animator who designed the character of Nemo for the blockbuster Pixar film "Finding Nemo". He also helped animate "A Bug's Life", "Toy Story 2", "Monsters, Inc." and a 2007 Pixar release.
January 23, 2005 - Johnny Carson was 79. He was host of the "Tonight Show" for thirty years.
January 20, 2005 - Lamont Bentley was 31. He starred as Hakeem Campbell on the UPN sitcom "Moesha".
January 18, 2005 - Virginia Mayo was 84. She was the stunning blond actress who brought beauty and romance to films of the 1940s and 1950s with such co-stars as James Cagney, Bob Hope, Gregory Peck, Danny Kaye and Ronald Reagan.
January 18, 2005 - Ruth Warrick was 88. She was the darling of the daytime soap opera "All My Children" who launched her career in Orson Welles' all-time classic "Citizen Kane".
January 17, 2005 - Zhao Ziyang was 85. He was the former prime minister of China and a reform-minded Communist Party leader who was toppled in a power struggle after the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests.
January 14, 2005 - Earl Cameron was 89. He was host of CBC's national television news from 1959 to 1966.
January 13, 2005 - Spencer Dryden was 66. He was the drummer for the Jefferson Airplane in the band's glory years, including the breakthrough 1967 album "Surrealistic Pillow" and the Woodstock festival.
January 5, 2005 - Bud Poile was 80. Bud Poile was 80. He's a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame who helped the Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup in 1947 and was the first general manager of both the Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks.
December 30, 2004 - Artie Shaw was 94. He was the clarinetist and bandleader whose recording of "Begin the Beguine" epitomized the Big Band era.
December 29, 2004 - Jerry Orbach was 69. He played Detective Lennie Briscoe for twelve seasons on "Law & Order" and was a star on Broadway as a song-and-dance man.
December 28, 2004 - Susan Sontag was 71. She was the author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" whose voracious mind and provocative prose made her a leading intellectual of the past half century.
December 26, 2004 - Reggie White was 43. He is the NFL's former all-time sack leader who put together a Hall of Fame career as a defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers from 1985-1998. He also played for the Carolina Panthers in 2000.
December 26, 2004 - Doug Ault was 54. He hit .245 with 11 homers and 64 RBIs during the Toronto Blue Jays' inaugural season but he's best known for hitting two home runs in a 9-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on opening day.
December 24, 2004 - Johnny Oates was 58. He managed the Texas Rangers and Baltimore Orioles, compiling a regular season record of 797-746.
December 17, 2004 - Bobby Mattick was 89. He was one of the Toronto Blue Jays' original employees, managing the team in 1980 and 1981. He played a key administrative role in scouting and developing the talent that carried the Blue Jays to five AL East titles and two World Series championships.
December 17, 2004 - Arthur "Bo" Agee Sr. was 52. He was the father of Arthur Agee Jr., chronicled in the acclaimed documentary "Hoop Dreams".
December 9, 2004 - "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott was 38. He was one of metal's top guitarists and an original member of Grammy-nominated thrash rock pioneers Pantera.
December 1, 2004 - Pierre Berton was 84. He was a great Canadian broadcaster, writer and author of 50 books, including compelling histories like 1970's "The National Dream" and 1971's "The Last Spike".
November 30, 2004 - John Drew Barrymore was 72. He was part of an acting clan that included his father, the famed stage and early film actor John Barrymore, his father's siblings, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore and his daughter, Drew Barrymore.
November 21, 2004 - Tom Rivers was 57. Tom Rivers was 57. He was an immensely popular rock 'n' roll DJ in the 1970s and 1980s who worked at rock stations throughout Canada and the U.S.
November 17, 2004 - John Morgan was 74. He played the dim-witted Mike from Canmore and other characters on CBC's The Royal Canadian Air Farce.
November 14, 2004 - Old Dirty Bastard was 35. He was a founding member of the seminal rap group the Wu-Tang Clan in the early 1990s. The Wu-Tang blueprint was for each member to pursue solo projects, and O.D.B.'s were among the best. He released hit singles such as "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Got Your Money," and appeared on remixes with artists like Mariah Carey.
November 11, 2004 - Yasser Arafat was 75. He was the President of the Palestinian Authority, leader of Fatah and Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and co-winner of the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
November 7, 2004 - Howard Keel was 85. He romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas".
November 4, 2004 - Sergei Zholtok was 31. He played 588 NHL games with Boston, Ottawa, Montreal, Edmonton, Minnesota and Nashville scoring 111 goals and adding 147 assists.
November 2, 2004 - Peggy Ryan was 80. She teamed with dance partner Donald O'Connor in movie musicals such as "This Is the Life" and "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
October 30, 2004 - Princess Alice was 102. She was the widow of Prince Henry, the third son of King George V and Queen Mary and the longest-lived member of the British royal family.
October 18, 2004 - Doug Bennett was 53. He was the lead singer for Doug & the Slugs, a Canadian band best known for its hits "Too Bad", "Day By Day" and "Making It Work".
October 12, 2004 - The Big Boss Man was 42. He was a star in the WWF who had high profile feuds with Hulk Hogan, Ted Dibiase, Nailz, The Heenan Family, Vader, Al Snow, and many others.
October 11, 2004 - Ken Caminiti was 41. He was a three-time All-Star third baseman who won the 1996 National League MVP.
October 11, 2004 - Christopher Reeve was 52. He was an actor best known for playing the role of "Superman". He recently turned personal tragedy into a public crusade, becoming the nation's most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research.
October 9, 2004 - Jacques Derrida was 74. He one of France's best-known philosophers and the founder of the deconstructionist school.
October 6, 2004 - Rodney Dangerfield was 82. He was the goggle-eyed comic famed for his self-deprecating one-liners and signature phrase "I can't get no respect".
October 4, 2004 - Janet Leigh was 77. She was an actress best known as the knife attack victim in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho".
October 3, 2004 - John Cerutti was 44. He was a former pitcher for my Toronto Blue Jays and a current Blue Jays television announcer.
September 22, 2004 - Russ Meyer was 82. He produced, directed, wrote, edited and shot over 20 films, including the 1965 cult hit "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!".
September 16, 2004 - Johnny Ramone was 55. He was the guitarist and co-founder of the seminal punk band "The Ramones" that influenced a generation of rockers.
August 29, 2004 - Laura Branigan was 47. She was a a Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her 1982 platinum hit "Gloria".
August 25, 2004 - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross was 78. She was a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book "On Death and Dying" and later as a pioneer for hospice care.
August 16, 2004 - Ivan Hlinka was 54. He was an exceptional hockey player who later coached the Czech Republic hockey team to a gold medal at the 1998 Olympics. He played for the Vancouver Canucks and coached the Pittsburgh Penguins.
August 13, 2004 - Julia Child was 91. She was the world's first celebrity chef as well as a famed cookbook author.
August 9, 2004 - Fay Wray was 96. She won everlasting fame as the damsel held atop the Empire State Building by the giant ape in the 1933 film classic "King Kong".
August 6, 2004 - Rick James was 56. He was a funk legend best known for the 1981 hit "Super Freak".
August 4, 2004 - Henri Cartier-Bresson was 95. He was a legendary French photographer who travelled the world for more than half a century capturing human drama with his camera.
July 30, 2004 - Eugene Roche was 75. He played the kitchen-cleaning "Ajax man" in TV commercials and had memorable roles in the TV shows "All in the Family," "Magnum P.I.," "Webster" and "Soap."
July 15, 2004 - Arthur Kane was 55. He was the bassist for the New York Dolls, the pioneering '70s glam rock group.
July 12, 2004 - Isabel Sanford was 86. She was best known as "Weezie", Louise Jefferson on the television sitcom "The Jeffersons".
July 9, 2004 - Jeff Smith was 65. He was public television's popular "Frugal Gourmet" before a sex scandal ruined his career.
July 2, 2004 - Marlon Brando was 80. He revolutionized American acting with his Method performances in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "On the Waterfront" and went on to create the iconic characterization of Don Vito Corleone in "The Godfather". Stephen had him and now sits in second.
June 10, 2004 - Ray Charles was 73. He was the Grammy-winning crooner who blended gospel and blues in such crowd-pleasers as "What'd I Say" and ballads like "Georgia on My Mind".
June 5, 2004 - Ronald Reagan was 93. He was the 40th President of the United States of America.
June 4, 2004 - Brian Linehan was 58. He was the puckish, always-confident TV personality and interviewer of both Canadian and Hollywood stars.
May 26, 2004 - Richard Biggs was 44. He played Dr. Stephen Franklin on "Babylon 5" and also had a long run on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives".
May 18, 2004 - Tony Randall was 84. He was the comic actor best known for playing fastidious photographer Felix Unger on "The Odd Couple".
May 17, 2004 - Anna Lee was 91. Her nearly 70-year acting career in movies and television spanned from her breakthrough role in "How Green Was My Valley" to an extended run on "General Hospital".
May 12, 2004 - John Whitehead was 55. He was a prominent R&B artist best known for the 1979 hit song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now".
May 9, 2004 - Alan King was 76. His tirades against everyday suburban life grew into a long comedy career in nightclubs and television that he later expanded to Broadway and character roles in movies.
May 7, 2004 - Clement Dodd was 72. He was a pioneer of reggae credited with launching the career of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
April 29, 2004 - Sid Smith was 78. He was a a former Toronto Maple Leafs captain and three-time Stanley Cup winner with the blue and white.
April 29, 2004 - Mike Wadsworth was 60. He was a former defensive lineman for the Toronto Argonauts, Canadian ambassador to Ireland and Notre Dame athletic director.
April 27, 2004 - Hubert Selby Jr. was 75. He was the acclaimed and anguished author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream".
April 25, 2004 - Estee Lauder was 97. She took a family recipe for skin cream and a passion for female beauty and turned them into a $10 billion cosmetics empire.
April 23, 2004 - Pat Tillman was 27. He was a safety with the Arizona Cardinals who walked away from his $3.6 million a year contract to join the Army Rangers in Afghanistan.
April 9, 2004 - Carrie Snodgress was 57. She was an actress who starred in such films as "Diary of a Mad Housewife", "Pale Rider" and "Wild Things".
March 30, 2004 - Alistair Cooke was 95. He was the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theatre" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years.
March 29, 2004 - Peter Ustinov was 82. He was an Oscar-winning British actor and author best known for films such as "Spartacus", "Death on the Nile" and "Logan's Run".
March 27, 2004 - Jan Berry was 62. He was a member of the duo Jan & Dean that had the 1960s surf-music hits "Deadman's Curve", "Surf City" and "Little Old Lady from Pasadena".
March 20, 2004 - Former Dutch Queen Juliana was 94. She oversaw a period of dramatic social change, taking in the end of empire and the evolution of her country into a leading voice for global liberalism.
March 17, 2004 - Mercedes McCambridge was 85. She won an Oscar for the 1949 film "All the King's Men" and later provided the raspy voice of the demon-possessed girl in "The Exorcist".
March 9, 2004 - Robert Pastorelli was 49. He was the boxer-turned-actor best known to television audiences as the house painter Eldin on long-running CBS comedy "Murphy Brown".
March 9, 2004 - Paul Winfield was 62. He was an Academy Award-nominated actor who was known for his versatility in stage, film and television roles, including a highly praised 1978 depiction of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
March 8, 2004 - Spalding Gray was 62. He laid bare his life and mingled performance art with comedy in acclaimed monologues like "Swimming to Cambodia" and "It's a Slippery Slope".
March 2, 2004 - Marge Schott was 75. She was the tough-talking, chain-smoking owner of the Cincinnati Reds who won a World Series but was repeatedly suspended for offensive remarks.
February 27, 2004 - John Randolph was 88. He was a Tony Award-winning character actor who appeared in numerous films, television series and plays.
February 26, 2004 - Boris Trajkovski was 47. He was Macedonia's president, a moderate leader credited for helping to unite his ethnically divided country.
February 23, 2004 - Bart Howard was 88. He was a songwriter and pianist best known for his composition "Fly Me to the Moon".
February 21, 2004 - Jan Miner was 86. She was a New York stage actress who gained fame as Madge, the manicurist in Palmolive television ads.
February 9, 2004 - Claude Ryan was 79. He was best known across Canada as the cerebral leader of the provincial federalist forces that defeated Rene Levesque in the 1980 referendum.
January 27, 2004 - Jack Paar was 85. He pioneered late-night talk as host of "The Tonight Show".
January 27, 2004 - Jack Tunney was 68. He teamed with Vince McMahon Jr. in 1984 to bring the World Wrestling Federation to Toronto.
January 26, 2004 - Fanny Blankers-Koen was 85. She claimed four gold medals at the 1948 Olympic Games in London and was widely considered the greatest female athlete of the 20th century.
January 23, 2004 - Bob Keeshan was 76. As Captain Kangaroo he entertained and educated generations of children.
January 22, 2004 - Ann Miller was 81. She was a tap dancer and actress who starred in such Hollywood musical classics as "Easter Parade," "On the Town" and "Kiss Me Kate".
January 21, 2004 - Noble Willingham was 72. He worked steadily as a supporting actor over the last 30 years and left his role as a saloon owner on the series "Walker, Texas Ranger" to run for Congress.
January 16, 2004 - Olivia Goldsmith was 54. She was an author who penned "The First Wives Club" which sold millions of copies and became a number one film in 1996 starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler.
January 16, 2004 - Ron O'Neal was 66. He played a cocaine dealer named Youngblood Priest in "Superfly" and the sequel, "Superfly TNT," which he also directed.
January 15, 2004 - Uta Hagen was 84. She dazzled Broadway for more than 50 years and wrote what many consider the actor's bible on performing.
January 11, 2004 - Yinka Dare was 32. He led the George Washington Colonials to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances before being drafted in the first-round of the NBA draft by the New Jersey Nets.
January 8, 2004 - J. Douglas Creighton was 75. He founded The Toronto Sun in 1971. Under Creighton's leadership, the "little paper that grew" became a national chain, including Suns in Edmonton, Calgary and Ottawa.
January 6, 2004 - Tug McGraw was 59. He's the zany relief pitcher who coined the phrase "You Gotta Believe" with the New York Mets and later closed out Philadelphia's only World Series championship.
December 30, 2003 - Earl Hindman was 61. He played Wilson, the neighbor of Tim Allen's character on the long-running sitcom "Home Improvement".
December 28, 2003 - Ivan Calderon was 41. He played 10 seasons in the major leagues with the Seattle Mariners, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox and Montreal Expos, finishing his big league career in 1993 with a .272 batting average, 104 homers and 444 RBIs.
December 28, 2003 - Alan Bates was 69. He starred in films such as "Zorba the Greek", "Far From The Madding Crowd" and "Women in Love".
December 22, 2003 - Hope Lange was 70. She earned an Oscar nomination for her supporting role in the 1957 film "Peyton Place" and won two Emmys for playing the lead in TV's "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".
December 16, 2003 - Keith Magnuson was 56. He played his entire 10-year NHL career with the Chicago Blackhawks amassing 1,442 penalty minutes.
December 9, 2003 - Keith McCreary was 63. played left wing for the Montreal Canadiens, Pittsburgh Penguins and Atlanta Flames from 1962-75. He scored 131 goals and had 112 assists for 243 points in 532 NHL games.
December 4, 2003 - David Hemmings was 66. He starred in the 1966 film "Blow Up" and had roles in "Barbarella", "Gladiator" and "Gangs of New York".
November 24, 2003 - Warren Spahn was 82. He was a Hall of Fame pitcher who won more games than any other left-hander in history.
November 21, 2003 - Jonathan Brandis was 27. He was an actor who starred alongside Rodney Dangerfield in Ladybugs, and Chuck Norris in the martial arts comedy Sidekicks.
November 11, 2003 - Art Carney was 85. He played Jackie Gleason's sewer worker pal Ed Norton in the TV classic "The Honeymooners" and went on to win the 1974 Oscar for best actor in "Harry and Tonto".
November 6, 2003 - Bobby Hatfield was 63. He was one half of the Righteous Brothers, best known for pop standbys like "Unchained Melody," "(You're My) Soul and Inspiration" and "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling".
October 28, 2003 - Rod Roddy was 66. He was the announcer on "The Price is Right" most famous for his signature "Come on down!".
October 24, 2003 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek was 105. She became one of the world's most famous women as she helped her husband fight the Japanese during World War II and later the Chinese Communists.
October 22, 2003 - Fred Berry was 52. He was the red-beret-wearing Rerun on the 1970s TV sitcom "What's Happening!".
October 17, 2003 - Stu Hart was 88. He was the patriarch of Canada's famous wrestling family and the founder of Stampede Wrestling. He was renowned as a trainer of young talent and headed a wrestling dynasty that included sons Bret and Owen Hart.
October 12, 2003 - Bill Shoemaker was 72. His 8,883 victories are the second most in thoroughbred racing history.
October 7, 2003 - Izzy Asper was 71. He was the patriarch of CanWest Global Communications.
October 6, 2003 - Dan Snyder was 25. He played center for the Atlanta Thrashers.
September 28, 2003 - Elia Kazan was 94. His triumphs included the original Broadway productions of "Death of a Salesman" and "A Streetcar Named Desire" and the Academy Award-winning film "On the Waterfront".
September 27, 2003 - Donald O'Connor was 78. His career stretched 70 years from vaudeville song-and-dance to Hollywood movies and television. He was best known for "Make 'Em Laugh", a slapstick dance solo in "Singin' in the Rain".
September 27, 2003 - Stanley Fafara was 53. He played Beaver's pal Whitey on "Leave it to Beaver".
September 26, 2003 - George Plimpton was 76. He was the self-deprecating author of "Paper Lion" and a patron to Philip Roth, Jack Kerouac and countless other writers.
September 26, 2003 - Robert Palmer was 54. He had a string of hits in the 80s, including "Addicted to Love", "Some Guys Have All The Luck", "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On" and "Simply Irresistible".
September 23, 2003 - Gordon Jump was 71. He was best known as Arthur Carlson on WKRP. "As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly".
September 12, 2003 - Johnny Cash was 71. He was a towering figure in American music with such hits as "Folsom Prison Blues", "I Walk the Line", and "A Boy Named Sue". Most recently, Cash was recognized for his cover of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" with seven nominations at last month's MTV Video Music Awards. The Man in Black was a unique gem in the musical world and will be sorely missed.
September 12, 2003 - John Ritter was 54. He was the bumbling but lovable Jack Tripper on the 70s smash hit "Three's Company".
September 8, 2003 - Warren Zevon was 56. He was a singer and song writer best known for his hit "Werewolves of London".
August 31, 2003 - Charles Bronson was 81. He starred in such classics as "The Magnificent Seven", "The Great Escape" and "The Dirty Dozen" as well as the "Death Wish" series.
August 23, 2003 - Bobby Bonds was 57. He was a three-time All-Star, hit 332 home runs and stole 461 bases for the Giants, Yankees, Angels, White Sox, Rangers, Indians, Cardinals and Cubs.
August 16, 2003 - Idi Amin was 80. He was the former Ugandan Dictator, blamed for the murder of tens of thousands of his people in the 1970s. May this ruthless dictator not rest in peace.
August 11, 2003 - Herb Brooks was 66. He was a legendary hockey coach who led a band of U.S. collegians to the 1980 Olympic gold medal in the famed "Miracle on Ice".
August 10 - Gregory Hines was 57. He was a Tony Award winning tap-dancing actor who starred on Broadway and in movies including "White Nights", "The Cotton Club" and "Running Scared".
July 31, 2003 - Sam Phillips was 80. He was the founder of Sun Records who discovered Elvis Presley and also launched the careers of such stars as Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and B.B. King.
July 28, 2003 - Bob Hope was 100. He was America's most-honored comedian, a star in every category open to him - vaudeville, radio, television and film, most notably a string of "Road" movies with longtime friend Bing Crosby.
July 25, 2003 - John Schlesinger was 77. He was an Oscar winning director of "Midnight Cowboy" and "The Falcon and the Snowman".
July 17, 2003 - Carol Shields was 68. She was a Pulitzer Prize-winning Canadian novelist who wrote "The Stone Diaries".
July 7, 2003 - Buddy Ebsen was 95. He starred in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" and "Barnaby Jones".
July 4, 2003 - Barry White was 58. He was renowned for his lush baritone and lyrics that oozed sex appeal on songs such as "Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe".
July 4, 2003 - N!xau was 59. He became the world's most famous Kalahari Bushman after starring in the apartheid-era film "The Gods Must Be Crazy".
July 1, 2003 - Buddy Hackett was 78. He had funny roles in such films as "The Music Man", "The Love Bug" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World".
June 29, 2003 - Katherine Hepburn was 96. She won an unequaled four best actress Oscars in a career that spanned five decades.
June 27, 2003 - Strom Thurmond was 100. He was the longest-serving U.S. senator in history.
June 21, 2003 - Roger Neilson was 69. Captain Video was a very influential hockey coach who began his career coaching the Toronto Maple Leafs. Roger lost a courageous battle with cancer and will be missed by the entire hockey community.
June 16, 2003 - Hume Cronyn was 91. He was a Canadian-born actor who is best known for his role in the 1980s films "Cocoon" and "Cocoon: The Return".
June 12, 2003 - Gregory Peck was 87. He won an Oscar for his role as lawyer Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
June 12, 2003 - David Brinkley was 82. He first gained fame as one-half of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley anchor team and for more than a half-century loomed large in the newscasting world he helped chart.
June 3, 2003 - Freddie Blassie was 85. He was one of the most important figures in professional wrestling managing such bad guys as Nicolai Volkoff and The Iron Sheik.
May 15, 2003 - June Carter Cash was 73. She was a country music singer-songwriter and wife of Johnny Cash.
May 15, 2003 - Robert Stack was 84. He was famed for his television role as crime fighter Eliot Ness in "The Untouchables" and as the host on "Unsolved Mysteries".
May 13, 2003 - Noel Redding was 57. He was the bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
May 1, 2003 - Miss Elizabeth was 42. She managed Macho Man Randy Savage in the WWF. I remember spending many hours watching Miss Elizabeth adorn the ringside while Savage wrestled his way to the Intercontinental Championship.
April 21, 2003 - Graham P. Jarvis was 72. This Toronto born character actor appeared in dozens of television shows and movies, including "7th Heaven" and "Six Feet Under".
April 17, 2003 - Robert Atkins was 72. He was an advocate of a popular but controversial high-protein, low carbohydrate diet.
April 12, 2003 - Little Eva was 59. She recorded the hit 1960s dance song "The Loco-Motion".
April 11, 2003 - John Butler was 56. He was the general manager and an architect of Buffalo's Super Bowl teams of the 1990s.
April 7, 2003 - Cardinal Gerald Emmett Carter was 91. He was archbishop emeritus of Toronto.
April 3, 2003 - Edwin Starr was 61. He's best known for producing the number one Motown hit "War".
April 1, 2003 - Michael Jeter was 50. He played a shrimpy football coach on the television series "Evening Shade" and had roles in such movies as "The Green Mile" and "The Fisher King".
March 13, 2003 - Lynne Thigpen was 54. She was a versatile actress and former host of popular children's educational program 'Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?'.
February 27, 2003 - Fred Rogers was 74. He was host of the public television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for more than 30 years.
February 19, 2003 - Johnny PayCheck was 64. He was best known for his 1977 working man's anthem "Take This Job and Shove It".
January 23, 2003 - Nell Carter was 54. She was best known for her role as the matronly housekeeper in the 1980s television sitcom "Gimme a Break".
January 19, 2003 - Richard Crenna was 76. He was an Emmy award-winning character actor who starred as a lovesick teenager on "Our Miss Brooks" and Sylvester Stallone's Green Beret mentor in the "Rambo" films.
January 12, 2003 - Maurice Gibb was 53. He was a member of the famed disco band the Bee Gees.
January 8, 2003 - Billy Van was 68. He was host of the "Hilarious House of Frightenstein" and played a variety of characters in this Canadian gem.
December 27, 2002 - George Roy Hill was 81. He was an Oscar-winning director who helped launch the "buddy" film genre by memorably teaming Robert Redford and Paul Newman in 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and later in 1973's Best Picture winner "The Sting". He also directed the classic hockey movie "Slap Shot".
December 23, 2002 - Joe Strummer was 50. He was lead singer, guitarist and song writer of the legendary British punk band The Clash.
December 15, 2002 - Zal Yanovsky was 57. He was a guitar player with the Lovin' Spoonful, a 1960s group known for hits such as "Daydream," "Do You Believe in Magic" and "Summer in the City".
December 15, 2002 - Brad Dexter was 85. He rode with Yul Brynner as one of the Magnificent Seven and became a confidant of both Marilyn Monroe and Frank Sinatra.
November 19, 2002 - James Coburn was 74. He portrayed tongue-in-cheek secret agent Derek Flint in "Our Man Flint" and "In Like Flint" and won an Academy Award decades later as an alcoholic father in "Affliction".
November 5, 2002 - Jonathan Harris was 87. He played Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960's sci-fi show "Lost in Space".
October 31, 2002 - Jam Master Jay was 37. He was a founding member of the groundbreaking hip-hop group Run-DMC.
October 25, 2002 - Richard Harris was 72. He was an actor who gained fame as the roistering star of such 1960s films as "This Sporting Life" and "Camelot".
October 9, 2002 - Jacques Richard was 50. His best season in the NHL was in 1980-81 with the Nordiques, when he scored 52 goals with 51 assists. He still holds the franchise record for most goals and points in a season by a right-winger.
October 3, 2002 - Bruce Paltrow was 58. He was most a producer and director of St. Elsewhere and patriarch of a show business family that includes Oscar-winning daughter Gwyneth Paltrow.
September 11, 2002 - Johnny Unitas was 69. He was a Hall of Fame quarterback who broke nearly every NFL passing record and won three championships with the Baltimore Colts in an 18-year career.
September 11, 2002 - Kim Hunter was 79. She won a supporting Oscar in 1951 as Stella in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and appeared in three "Planet of the Apes" movies.
August 7, 2002 - Josh Ryan Evans was 20. He played a young attorney on "Ally McBeal" and starred on the soap "Passions".
August 6, 2002 - Chick Hearn was 85. He called play-by-play for the Lakers in an uninterrupted streak of 3,338 games beginning in November of 1965 and ending on Dec 16, 2001. He's also the creator of such now standard basketball phrases as "slam dunk," "air ball" and "dribble drive".
July 8, 2002 - Rod Steiger was 77. He was Oscar nominated for both "On the Waterfront" and "The Pawnbroker" before winning Hollywood's biggest honor for "In the Heat of the Night".
July 6, 2002 - John Frankenheimer was 72. He directed such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz".
July 5, 2002 - Ted Williams was 83. He was a two-time MVP who twice won the Triple Crown and hit .344 lifetime with 521 home runs. His greatest achievement came in 1941 when he batted .406, getting six hits in a doubleheader on the final day of the season. The "Splendid Splinter" was one of my all-time baseball heroes.
June 30, 2002 - Rosemary Clooney was 74. She soared to fame with her 1951 record of "Come on-a My House," and became a star in television and films.
June 28, 2002 - John Entwistle was 57. He was the bass player for "The Who".
June 22, 2002 - Darryl Kile was 33. He pitched a no-hitter while with Houston in 1993 and went 20-9 with a 3.91 ERA for St. Louis in 2000. He was 133-119 in 11-plus major league seasons.
June 22, 2002 - Ann Landers was 83. She was the world's most widely syndicated columnist, appearing in more than 1,200 newspapers worldwide with 90 million readers daily.
June 21, 2002 - Timothy Findley was 71. An officer of the Order of Canada, he received numerous awards during his writing career, including two Governor General's awards for his 1977 novel "The Wars" and his play "Elizabeth Rex" in 2000.
June 10, 2002 - John Gotti, Sr. was 61. Once known the "Dapper Don" for his fine double-breasted suits and the "Teflon Don" after a series of acquittals, Gotti was sentenced to life in 1992 for racketeering and six killings. His victims included "Big Paul" Castellano, whom he succeeded as boss of New York's Gambino crime family in 1985.
June 6, 2002 - Dee Dee Ramone was 50. He was a founding member of the pioneer punk band "The Ramones".
May 24, 2002 - Sam Snead was 89. He had a record 81 victories on the PGA Tour, seven major championships and 10 appearances in the Ryder Cup as a player or captain.
May 20, 2002 - Davey Boy Smith was 39. He was a member of the Tag Team Champion British Bulldogs in the WWF.
May 11, 2002 - Joe "Bananas" Bonnano was 97. He was the former head of one of New York City's five original Mafia families.
April 26, 2002 - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was 30. She was the rapping member of TLC, the Grammy winning trio behind such hits as "Waterfall", "No Scrubs" and "Unpretty".
April 20, 2002 - Layne Staley was 34. He was the lead singer of Alice in Chains, one of the most prominent bands of the Seattle grunge scene of the early '90s.
April 16, 2002 - Robert Urich was 55. He starred in such detective series as "Vega$" and "Spenser: For Hire".
March 30, 2002 - The Queen Mother was 101. She won Britain's loyalty and admiration during World War II at the side of King George VI.
March 28, 2002 - Billy Wilder was 95. He directed such classics as "Some Like it Hot" and "Sunset Boulevard".
March 27, 2002 - Milton Berle was 93. Uncle Miltie was "Mr. Television". His death puts me back in the lead.
March 27, 2002 - Dudley Moore was 66. He starred in "10" and "Arthur".
March 19, 2002 - Johnny Lombardi was 86. He was well known for his annual CHIN picnics featuring Miss CHIN bikini contestants.
February 23, 2002 - Chuck Jones was 89. He helped develop such characters as Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
February 14, 2002 - Waylon Jennings was 64. This country great wrote and sang the theme for "The Dukes of Hazzard". He was also the narrator.
January 24, 2002 - Peter Gzowski was 67. He was a legendary Canadian broadcaster.
January 14, 2002 - Frank Shuster was 85. He was the straight man of Canada's famous comedy duo, Wayne and Shuster.
January 13, 2002 - Ted Demme was 38. His latest movie "Blow" was also his best. His brother is Jonathan Demme.
January 8, 2002 - Dave Thomas was 69. He was the founder of the Wendy's Hamburger chain.
December 18, 2001 - Stuart Adamson was 43. He was the lead singer of 80's group Big Country.
November 30, 2001 - George Harrison was 58. He was a Beatle.
November 17, 2001 - Charlotte Coleman was 33. She starred in "Four Weddings and a Funeral".
November 11, 2001 - Ken Kesey was 66. He wrote "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
September 18, 2001 - Mr. Dressup was 73. Ernie Coombs is a revered Canadian children's television star. He was a childhood idol of mine.
September 12, 2001 - Garnet "Ace" Bailey was 53. In ten NHL seasons with Boston, Detroit, Saint Louis, and Washington, Ace totaled 107 goals, 171 assists, for 278 points in 568 games.
September 5, 2001 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf was 39. He was a founding member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack.
August 30, 2001 - Carl Brewer was 63. He was named to three all-star teams in the 1960s, first team in 1963 and second team in 1960 and 1965. He earned three successive Stanley Cup rings with the Leafs, ending in 1964.
August 26, 2001 - Aaliyah was only 22. An R&B singer, she recently starred in "Romeo Must Die".
July 5, 2001 - Mordecai Richler was 70. He wrote "The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz", "Joshua Then and Now" and others.
June 28, 2001 - Jack Lemmon was 76. This movie star played excitable, baffled individuals in such movies as "Some Like It Hot", "The Apartment", "The Odd Couple", and "The Out-of-Towners".
June 21, 2001 - Carroll O'Connor was 76. He was Archie Bunker on "All in the Family".
June 21, 2001 - John Lee Hooker was 84. He was a giant in the blues world.
June 3, 2001 - Anthony Quinn was 86. He won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for "Viva Zapata!" and "Lust For Life". His death gives Stephen points on the board.
April 17, 2001 - Joey Ramone was 49. He was a founding member of the pioneer punk band "The Ramones".
March 12, 2001 - Robert Ludlum was 74. He was a prolific writer.
February 17, 2001 - Eddie Matthews was 70. Over his seventeen-year Major League career, he hit 512 home runs, played in three World Series, and drove in 100 or more runs five times.
January 2, 2001 - Ray Walston was 86. He was Mr. Hand in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High".
December 26, 2000 - Jason Robards was 79. He won consecutive Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor for "All the President's Men" and "Julia".
November 17, 2000 - Joe C was 26. He was Kid Rock's right hand man.
November 5, 2000 - Steve Allen was 78. He created and hosted the "Tonight Show".
October 7, 2000 - Richard Farnsworth was 80. He was Red Blow in "The Natural". His death ties Ryan and I at 20.
September 29, 2000 - Pierre Trudeau was 80. He was Canada's Prime Minister from April 20, 1968 to June 3, 1979, and from March 3, 1980 to June 30, 1984. His death has put me in the lead.
September 17, 2000 - Paula Yates was 40. She hosted "The Big Breakfast" in the UK.