David Little was 46.  He was a durable linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers who was voted to the Pro Bowl in 1990.

David Boone was 53.  He was an all-star defensive lineman who helped the Edmonton Eskimos win five consecutive Grey Cups.

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.

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.

Andre Norton was 93.  She was the science fiction and fantasy author who wrote the popular Witch World series.

Danny Joe Brown was 53.  He was the original lead singer of Southern rock collective Molly Hatchet.

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 Citytv in the 1980s and a broadcaster at the CBC after that. When Bill Cameron was anchoring CBLT's Toronto News in the 90s, it

Nicole DeHuff was 30. She was an actress best known for playing Teri Polo's sister in "Meet the Parents".

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.

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".

Debra Hill was 54. She co-wrote the horror classic "Halloween" and rose through Hollywood's ranks to become a pioneering woman producer.

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.

Jef Raskin was 61.  He was the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces.

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.

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".

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.

Dick Weber was 75.  He was one of bowling's first national stars and a three-time bowler of the year.

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.

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.

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".

Bob McAdorey was 69.  He was a long time DJ with CHUM and later a Global TV fixture. I remember him well from his days on Global TV as an afternoon entertainment reporter.  He was a funny dude and will be missed.

Gnassingbe Eyadema was 68.  He was the president of Togo and Africa's longest-ruling leader.

Ossie Davis was 87.  He was an actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life.  I remember him best from his appearance in three Spike Lee films, "School Daze," "Do the Right Thing" and "Jungle Fever."

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. I've been tracking celebrity deaths since September 2000 and this is the first time I've

John Vernon was 72.  He was the star of the 1960s drama "Wojeck" before moving on to a career in Hollywood. I remember him fondly as Dean Vernon Wormer in "Animal House".  "The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me."