In Memoriam
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Don Metz was 91. He was the right winger who helped the Toronto Maple Leafs win five Stanley Cups in the 1940s. Don Metz played a significant role in our 1942 comeback from a 3-0 deficit against the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup finals. In Game Five, he
Joe Nuxhall was 78. He was the youngest player in major league history and the beloved "old left-hander" on Cincinnati Reds radio broadcasts.
Ira Levin was 78. He was the author of bestsellers such as Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives.
Norman Mailer was 84. He was the macho prince of American letters who for decades reigned as the country's literary conscience and provocateur with such books as "The Naked and the Dead" and "The Executioner's Song".
Lillian "The Fabulous Moolah" Ellison was 84. She was the most famous and recognized women's wrestler.
Robert Goulet was 73. He was the singer whose rich baritone voice and classic tall, dark, dashing good looks made him a star on stage and television.
Porter Wagoner was 80. He was a a Grand Ole Opry institution and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Steve Rodehutskors was 43. He was a CFL offensive lineman who won two Grey Cups with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
Joey Bishop was 89. He was the stone-faced comedian who found success in nightclubs, television and movies but became most famous as a member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack.
Kenneth "Big Moe" Moore was 33. He was a Houston rapper whose 2002 album Purple World reached number 3 on Billboard's hip hop charts.
Lois Maxwell was 80. She was the Canadian-born actress who starred as Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond movies.
Bill Wirtz was 77. He was the longtime owner of the Chicago Blackhawks notorious for driving a hard bargain.
Ken Danby was 67. He was recognized as one of the world's foremost realist artists and is best-known in Canada for his iconic hockey painting, "At The Crease."
Marcel Marceau was 84. He was the world's best-known mime artist who for decades moved audiences around the world without uttering a single word.
Alice Ghostley was 81. She was the Tony Award-winning actress best known on television for playing Esmeralda on "Bewitched" and Bernice on "Designing Women."
Robert Jordan was 58. His "Wheel of Time" series of fantasy novels sold millions of copies.
Joe Zawinul was 75. He was the jazz keyboardist who soared to fame as one of the creators of jazz-rock fusion with the band Weather Report.
Jane Wyman was 93. She was an Oscar-winning actress and the first wife of former US President Ronald Reagan.
Madeleine L'Engle was 88. Her novel "A Wrinkle in Time" has been enjoyed by generations of schoolchildren and adults since the 1960s.
Luciano Pavarotti was 71. He was opera's biggest superstar of the late 20th century who brought the genre to the musical mainstream.
Michael Jackson was 65. He was a leading world beer critic who praised the brews of Belgium and was known as The Beer Hunter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
