This year saw a number of familiar names end up in the obituaries and only a few made the front page. The Sac Bee which I subscribe too compiled a list of some of the bigger names:
Farewell tour
We remember them from the silver screen, the TV sets in our living rooms, the nation’s concert halls and the words they wrote, where they made an impact on our lives and our society as a whole.
Here’s a list of celebrities in the world of arts and entertainment who died during 2006.
Movies, TV and radio
David T. Adams, 83, film producer who founded Pyramid Films Corp., which produces and distributes short films on a range of subjects.
Edward Albert, 55, son of screen veteran Eddie Albert who co-starred with Goldie Hawn in the 1970s film “Butterflies Are Free.”
June Allyson, 88, played the wholesome, raspy-voiced “perfect wife” opposite James Stewart, Van Johnson and other movie leading men.
Robert Altman, 81, five-time Oscar nominee for best director, had a vast, eclectic filmography ranging from “M•A•S•H” to “The Player” to “Gosford Park.”
Lew Anderson, 84, played Clarabell the Clown alongside Buffalo Bob Smith and Howdy Doody on one of TV’s first children’s shows.
Anne Howard Bailey, 82, writer who won Emmy Awards for the opera “The Trial of Mary Lincoln” and the soap opera “Santa Barbara.”
Joe Barbera, 95, half of the Hanna-Barbera animation team that produced such beloved cartoon characters as Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear and the Flintstones.
John Belluso, 36, promising playwright led the Mark Taper Forum’s Other Voices Project in Los Angeles for six years.
Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning comedy writer for “The Tracey Ullman Show” whose wit graced numerous films and TV shows, including “The Odd Couple” and “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”
Ed Benedict, 94, legendary animator put life, love and laughter in TV cartoon characters like Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Yogi Bear.
Frances Bergen, 84, model and actress married ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and was the mother of actress Candice Bergen.
Ted Berkman, 92, author-screenwriter best known for the book “Cast a Giant Shadow” and movies “Fear Strikes Out” and “Bedtime for Bonzo.”
Jay Bernstein, 68, flamboyant Hollywood personal manager launched the careers of Farrah Fawcett and Suzanne Somers.
Bill Beutel, 75, longtime TV news anchor, was the first host of the show that became ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
Arthur Bloom, 63, helped define the TV newsmagazine concept as the original director of the CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”
Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Surrealist filmmaker described variously by critics as a genius and a pornographer.
Orin Borsten, 94, Hollywood publicist wrote screenplays and co-wrote the memoir, “A Loving Gentleman: The Love Story of William Faulkner and Meta Carpenter.”
Mike Boyd, 74, longtime KCRA-TV reporter and anchorman.
Peter Boyle, 71, character actor, was the tap-dancing monster in “Young Frankenstein” and the curmudgeonly father on “Everybody Loves Raymond.”
Scott Brazil, 50, won two Emmys for producing NBC’s “Hill Street Blues” in the 1980s.
Ed Bradley, 65, correspondent for “60 Minutes” since 1981, had won 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment on the 50-year-old racial murder of Emmett Till.
Richard Bright, 68, character actor, appeared in all three “Godfather” movies and TV’s “The Sopranos.”
Phil Brown, 89, played Luke Skywalker’s Uncle Owen in “Star Wars.”
Harvey Bullock, 84, “The Andy Griffith Show” writer who also penned screenplays for “With Six You Get Eggroll,” “Don’t Drink the Water” and “Who’s Minding the Mint?”
Red Buttons, 87, carrot-topped burlesque comedian, became a top star in early television and won the 1957 Oscar as best supporting actor in “Sayonara.”
Henry Bumstead, 91, Oscar-winning production designer created sets for “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “Vertigo” in a career spanning 70 years.
Polly Burson, 86, renowned rodeo trick rider became a pioneer Hollywood stuntwoman.
Jean Byron, 80, portrayed Patty Duke’s mother on the 1960s TV series “The Patty Duke Show.”
Marion Cajori, 56, independent filmmaker who made documentaries about artists, including the Emmy-nominated “Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress.”
John Conte, 90, actorworked in television, radio, films and on Broadway for decades before going behind the cameras and founding his own TV station.
Pat Corley, 76, actor who served sage advice along with drinks as Phil the barkeep on “Murphy Brown.”
Raul Cortez, 73, one of Brazil’s most renowned stage, screen and television actors.
Franklin Cover, 77, played George and Louise Jefferson’s white neighbor in the sitcom “The Jeffersons.”
Patrick Cranshaw, 86, achieved cultlike status playing fraternity brother Joseph “Blue” Palasky in the film “Old School.”
George Crile III, 61, CBS producer wrote the best-selling book “Charlie Wilson’s War” and produced a controversial Vietnam War documentary.
Dan Curtis, 78, producer and director created the soap opera “Dark Shadows” and brought the epic miniseries “The Winds of War” and “War and Remembrance” to TV.
Tamara Dobson, 59, model-turned-actress best known for her movie roles as kung fu-fighting government super-agent Cleopatra Jones.
Robert Donner,75, character actor played Exidor on “Mork and Mindy” and Yancy Tucker on “The Waltons.”
Roger Donoghue, 75, the prizefighter who taught Marlon Brando to box for the movie “On the Waterfront.”
Mike Douglas, 81, whose affable personality and singing talent earned him 21 years as a TV talk-show host, from 1961 to 1982.
Amanda Duff, 92, appeared in half a dozen films from 1938-41, including “Just Around the Corner” and “Mr. Moto in Danger Island.”
Rocio Durcal, 61, Spanish actress and one of Latin music’s most distinctive song stylists in a four-decade career.
George Edwards, 87, for 40 years he hosted “Bright and Early” on WQXR, the classical radio station owned by The New York Times Co.
Mike Evans, 57, portrayed Lionel Jefferson in the TV sitcoms “All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons.”
Elma Gardner “Pem” Farnsworth, 98, helped her husband, Philo, develop the television and was among the first people whose images were transmitted on TV.
Michael G. Fitzgerald, 55, wrote a book about Universal Studios and co-authored “Westerns Women” and “Ladies of the Western.”
Richard Fleischer, 89, film director who worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars on “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and “Tora! Tora! Tora!”
Glenn Ford, 90, laconic, soft-spoken actor with an easy smile who played leading roles in Westerns, melodramas and romantic films from the early 1940s through the ’60s, including “Gilda” and “The Blackboard Jungle.”
Anthony Franciosa, 77, earned an Oscar nomination for his starring performance in “A Hatful of Rain” (1957).
Reuven Frank, 85, news producer paired two anchors in the 1950s, resulting in NBC’s groundbreaking “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”
Arthur Franz, 86, character actor whose credits include the 1957 movie “Hellcats of the Navy,” featuring Ronald Reagan.
Paul Gleason, 67, played the bad guy in “Trading Places” and the angry principal in “The Breakfast Club.”
Christopher Glenn, 68, longtime CBS News radio and TV reporter hosted the Emmy-winning children’s show “In the News.”
James Glennon, 64, cinematographer known for his evocative camera work on “El Norte” (1983) also won an Emmy for the HBO series “Deadwood.”
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, 80, comedic entertainer and character actor (”The High and the Mighty,” “Rio Bravo” and “Hellfighters.”)
Curt Gowdy, 86, went from being the voice of baseball’s Boston Red Sox for 15 seasons to becoming America’s premier sportscaster in the late ’60s and early ’70s.
Gary Graver, 68, cinematographer fought for decades to see director Orson Welles’ final film, “The Other Side of The Wind,” finished and released.
Gary Gray, 69, appeared in many westerns as a child actor (”Return of the Bad Men,” “Rachel and the Stranger.”
Val Guest, 94, prolific British filmmaker, made the sci-fi cult classics “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” and “The Quatermass Xperiment.”
John Haase, 83, his 1966 novel was turned into the film “Petulia,” director Richard Lester’s ode to the swinging ’60s.
Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian-born bodybuilder who won the 1955 Mr. Universe title, married actress Jayne Mansfield and went on to have his own acting career.
Bruce Hart, 68, wrote lyrics for “Sesame Street” and “Free to Be You and Me.”
Chris Hayward, 81, a TV writer who developed the klutzy cartoon character Dudley Do-Right and a creator of “The Munsters.”
Myron Healey, 82, character actor was a top bad men in TV and movie westerns.
Marian Marsh Henderson, 93, played Trilby opposite John Barrymore’s Svengali in the early ’30s and later founded the nonprofit Desert Beautiful organization in Palm Desert.
Perry Henzell, 70, Jamaican filmmaker whose “The Harder They Come” helped introduce reggae music to an international audience.
Arthur Hill, 84, veteran actor who played the weary husband in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” on Broadway and the stalwart attorney on TV’s “Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law.”
Phyllis Huffman, 61, casting director for best picture Oscar winners “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
Harold Hunter, 31, his skateboarding prowess and outsize personality led him to modeling and roles in such films as “Kids.”
Akira Ifukube, 91, prolific composer wrote the score for “Godzilla.”
Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese director twice won top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for “The Ballad of Narayama” and “The Eel.”
Steve Irwin, 44, was the popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the “Crocodile Hunter.”
Howard Jackson, 54, stunt actor in Chuck Norris’ “The Delta Force” movie and his “Walker, Texas Ranger” TV series.
Bettye Ackerman Jaffe, 82, a star of the popular 1960s “Ben Casey” medical series and the widow of actor Sam Jaffe.
Tony Jay, 73, voice actor portrayed Judge Frollo in the animated Disney film “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.”
Tommy Johnson, 71, tuba player whose ominous notes put teeth into the shark theme for the movie “Jaws.”
Chuck Jones, 65, actor and vocal coach who worked with Edie Falco, William Hurt and Stanley Tucci, among others.
Rocio Jurado, 61, actress-singer was a beloved figure in Spain and Latin America over a four-decade career.
Andreas Katsulas, 59, played alien ambassador G’Kar on “Babylon 5″ and the one-armed murderer in “The Fugitive” (1993).
Dan Q. Kennis, 86, producer made movies like “I Spit on Your Corpse!” and “Naughty Stewardesses.”
Bruno Kirby, 57, character actor who played the best friend in the Billy Crystal comedies “When Harry Met Sally” and “City Slickers,” and the young Clemenza in “The Godfather: Part II.”
Phyllis Kirk, 79, played the damsel in distress who was stalked by Vincent Price in “House of Wax” and starred as Nora Charles in the TV version of “The Thin Man.”
Kyoko Kishida, 76, Japanese actress best known for starring in 1964’s “Woman in the Dunes.”
Don Knotts, 81, character actor who won TV immortality and five Emmys as the bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Robert “Buzz” Knudson, 80, Hollywood sound re-recording mixer won Oscars for “Cabaret,” “The Exorcist” and “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”
Bill Kovacs, 56, computer animation pioneer shared a 1997 Academy Award for developing Wavefront’s Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system.
Miriam Saul Krant, 78, a co-founder of the National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University.
Kurt Kreuger, 89, his sinister blond handsomeness made him one of Hollywood’s reigning onscreen Nazis during World War II.
Raj Kumar, 77, onetime child actor was one of south India’s most beloved movie stars.
Philip B. Kunhardt Jr., 78, former Life magazine managing editor wrote and produced historical documentaries for television.
Peter Ladefoged, 80, pioneering linguist consulted on “My Fair Lady” (1964), in which actor Rex Harrison plays a phonetician.
Bill Lamb, 76, a key member of the team that founded New York’s public television station Channel 13.
Otto Lang, 98, ski instructor taught movie mogul Darryl F. Zanuck how to ski before launching his own career in Hollywood as a producer and director.
Rickie Layne, 81, ventriloquist frequently appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” with his dummy Velvel.
Stanislaw Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer’s novel “Solaris” was adapted into films by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1972 and by Steven Soderbergh in 2002.
Herbert B. Leonard, 84, film and TV producer left an indelible mark on pop culture with such TV shows as “Route 66″ and “Naked City.”
Alan M. Levin, 79, documentary filmmaker won several Emmys, including one for his PBS series “The New Immigrants” (1979).
Al Lewis, 82, cigar-chomping patriarch of “The Munsters” who also was a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate.
Stu Linder, 74, film editor worked almost exclusively for Barry Levinson since “Diner” and won an Oscar for the director’s 1988 film “Rain Man.”
Britt Lomond, 80, played dastardly Capitan Monastario in the 1950s TV series “Zorro” and was a staple on “Death Valley Days” and “Rawhide.”
Moss Mabry, 87, costume designer earned four Academy Award nominations, for “Giant,” “What a Way to Go!” “Morituri” and “The Way We Were.”
Mako, 72, whose portrayal of a Chinese coolie in “The Sand Pebbles” earned him a best supporting actor Oscar nomination in 1967.
Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association.
Arthur Malvin, 83, a composer and lyricist who won two Emmy Awards for his work with Carol Burnett and Frank Sinatra.
Gordon Manning, 89, had a significant role in shaping TV news for four decades as a news executive at CBS and NBC.
Osa Massen, 91, Danish-born actress often played the femme fatale in 1940s Hollywood films.
Darren McGavin, 83, Emmy-winning actor who worked in television for almost 50 years, most notably on “Kolchak: The Night Stalker,” and played the curmudgeonly dad in the movie “A Christmas Story.”
Gloria Monty, 84, groundbreaking producer turned the soap opera “General Hospital” into a pop sensation in the late 1970s.
Byron Morrow, 94, veteran character actor whose distinguished look often led him to be cast as a top military officer, police chief or judge.
Moose, 16, the Jack Russell terrier who appeared for 10 years on the TV series “Frasier.”
Jeremiah Morris, 76, appeared on Broadway and TV for 40 years, and directed the TV shows “Barney Miller” and “Quincy” and the theater production “The Gingerbread Lady.”
Jan Murray, 89, funnyman and game-show host who was a member of a comic rat pack that included Sid Caesar, Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis and Jack Carter.
Nadira, 73, veteran actress made her name playing vampish characters in Bollywood films in the 1950s and ’60s.
Richard Lee Newton, 79, actor and producer played Judge Richard Cooksey on the TV series “Matlock.”
Leon Niemczyk, 82, Polish actor starred in Roman Polanski’s “Knife in the Water” and hundreds of other films.
Philippe Noiret, 76, much-loved French character actor who gained international renown through the movies “Il Postino” and “Cinema Paradiso.”
Carrie Nye, 69, earned a 1965 Tony nomination for her role as a society woman in the musical “Half a Sixpence.”
Sven Nykvist, 88, a cinematographer who won Academy Awards for the Ingmar Bergman films “Cries and Whispers” (1973) and “Fanny and Alexander” (1982).
George Page, 71, creator and resonant on-air voice of the award-winning public TV series “Nature.”
Jack Palance, 87, a craggy-faced menace in “Shane” and “Sudden Fear” who turned to comedy at age 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in “City Slickers.”
David E. Peckinpah, 54, Fresno-born producer-writer-director whose TV credits included “Sliders,” “Wolf” and “Silk Stockings.”
Chris Penn, 40, the younger brother of Sean Penn who appeared in such films as “Reservoir Dogs,” “Mulholland Falls” and “Footloose.”
Claude Pieplu, 83, became a star as the voice of a character in the French cartoon “Shadoks.”
Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, political Italian filmmaker who directed the black-and-white classic “The Battle of Algiers” and “Burn,” starring Marlon Brando.
Stuart Quan, 43, Fresno martial artist and stunt man whose credits included “Rent,” “Hulk” and “Big Trouble in Little China.”
Padmini Ramachandran, 74, star of Indian films who later started an influential school of Indian classical dance in New Jersey.
Rajkumar, 77, child actor became one of south India’s most popular movie stars.
Gretchen Rau, 66, veteran film set decorator shared a 2005 Academy Award for her work on “Memoirs of a Geisha.”
Sid Raymond, 97, actor also voiced such beloved cartoon characters as the obese duck Baby Huey.
Dana Reeve, 44, actress, singer and inspirational widow of paralyzed “Superman” actor Christopher Reeve.
Gary Rhine, 54, Jewish filmmaker focused on the struggles of American Indians (”Wiping the Tears of Seven Generations.”)
Ken Richmond, 80, the 6-foot-5 wrestler for decades was seen striking the gong that heralded the opening credits for films produced by England’s J. Arthur Rank Studio.
Kasey Rogers, 80, a regular on the TV series “Bewitched” was best known for her role in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” as the estranged wife of tennis player Guy Haines.
Timothy Hayes Rooney, 59, a son of Mickey Rooney who had a minor career as an actor.
Joan Root, 69, conservationist and her ex-husband, Alan Root, made the Oscar-nominated documentary “Mysterious Castles of Clay” (1978).
Louis Rukeyser, 73, hosted PBS’ landmark financial-advice show “Wall $treet Week” for more than 30 years.
Jack Sameth, 79, TV director and producer worked with pioneering newscasters and on prime-time entertainment shows at ABC and PBS.
Shin Sang-ok, 80, pioneering film director introduced the kiss to Korean cinema and created the “3 Ninjas” movies.
Pablo Santos, 19, star of the television series “Greetings From Tucson.”
Daniel Schmid, 64, one of Switzerland’s best-known film (”Tosca’s Kiss,” 1984) and opera directors.
Leonard Schrader, 62, earned an Oscar nomination for his screenplay adaptation for the 1985 film “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”
Garrett Scott, 37, independent filmmaker died two days before his documentary “Occupation: Dreamland” received an Independent Spirit Award.
Adrienne Shelly, 40, actress, film writer and director first gained recognition for her roles in Hal Hartley’s dark comedies “The Unbelievable Truth” and “Trust.”
Vincent Sherman, 99, one of the last surviving studio-era contract directors, whose credits include “All Through the Night” and “The Young Philadelphians.”
Sig Shore, 87, independent producer whose film “Superfly” was among the first blaxploitation movies of the 1970s.
Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist and documentary filmmaker (”Vanishing Wilderness,” “Masters of the Congo Jungle.”)
Vilgot Sjoman, 81, Swedish filmmaker’s sexually explicit art house movie “I Am Curious (Yellow)” in 1967 challenged obscenity laws.
Jeremy Slate, 80, versatile actor who co-wrote and starred in the cult film “Hell’s Angels ‘69″ and appeared for eight seasons on the daytime drama “One Life To Live.”
Jack Smith, 92, recording artist who also hosted the popular “You Asked for It” TV show.
Van Smith, 61, designed costumes and makeup for the films of John Waters, including that of the transvestite Divine.
Leonard J. South, 92, camera operator on such classic Alfred Hitchcock films as “The Birds” and “North by Northwest.”
Aaron Spelling, 83, prime-time TV impresario who produced such hits as “Mod Squad,” “Fantasy Island,” “Hart to Hart,” “Dynasty,” “Charlie’s
Angels,” “The Love Boat,” “Melrose Place” and “Beverly Hills 90210.”
Richard Stahl, 74, actor whose 40-year career stretched from New York theater to film and TV comedies such as “Laverne and Shirley.”
Frank Stanton, 98, broadcasting pioneer who was president of CBS for 26 years.
Maureen Stapleton, 80, played sometimes profane but always vulnerable heroines and won an Oscar for her performance as anarchist Emma Goldman in “Reds.”
Joseph Stefano, 84, wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and was the first-season producer-writer of the 1960s TV series “The Outer Limits.”
Robert Sterling, 88, star of 1940s movies who appeared with his wife, Anne Jeffreys, in the TV series “Topper.”
Don Stewart, 70, best known for playing Michael Bauer for 16 years on “Guiding Light.”
Ann Mason Stockton, 89, Los Angeles-based harpist who performed in more than 800 movies, including “Schindler’s List.”
Ralph Story, 86, TV and radio broadcaster who hosted the popular quiz show “The $64,000 Challenge” in the 1950s.
Dave Tatsuno, 92, his 48-minute silent film, “Topaz,” about life in a World War II internment camp, is in the Library of Congress.
Frankie Thomas, 85, had a starring role in the 1950s children’s TV show “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.”
Peter Tomarken, 63, hosted the 1980s game show “Press Your Luck.”
Ross Tompkins, 68, jazz pianist had a long tenure with Doc Severinsen’s big band on the “Tonight” show.
Alex Toth, 77, maverick comic artist designed classic Hanna Barbera adventure cartoons “The Superfriends” and “Space Ghost.”
Francais “Rusty” Tullis, 70, was portrayed by Cher in the movie “Mask” as the troubled mother of a boy with a disfigured face.
Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress who starred in more than 100 films, including “The Third Man” and “Senso.”
Myron Waldman, 97, animator helped draw Betty Boop, Casper, Popeye and Raggedy Ann and Andy, and he originated Boop’s dog, Pudgy.
Jack Warden, 85, gravel-voiced character actor and two-time Oscar nominee who won an Emmy for his portrayal of George Halas in “Brian’s Song” (1971).
Dennis Weaver, 81, played the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in “Gunsmoke” and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in “McCloud.”
Lennie Weinrib, 71, character actor also supplied the title character’s voice in the children’s TV series “H.R. Pufnstuf.”
Arthur Widmer, 92, developer of the Ultra Violet and “blue screen” special effects processes earned an Oscar last year for lifetime achievement.
Jack Wild, 53, earned an Oscar nomination for his role as the Artful Dodger in the movie musical “Oliver!”
Shelley Winters, 85, forceful, outspoken star who won Oscars as supporting actress in “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “A Patch of Blue.”
J. Madison Wright, 21, former child actress whose first major role was in the 1990s TV series “Earth 2.”
Jane Wyatt, 96, serene actress who for six years on “Father Knows Best” was one of TV’s favorite moms and won three Emmy Awards.
Edward J. Yates, 87, directed “American Bandstand” for 17 years, from a fledgling local TV show to a national institution that made Dick Clark a star.
Popular music
Don Alias, 66, jazz and pop percussionist worked with Nina Simone, Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell.
Clifford Antone, 56, founder of blues club Antone’s, which helped Austin, Texas, become “the live music capital of the world.”
Etta Baker, 93, guitarist known for playing the Piedmont blues.
Syd Barrett, 60, co-founded Pink Floyd in 1965 and wrote many of the band’s early songs.
Ray Barretto, 76, Grammy-winning Latin jazz percussionist who integrated the conga drum into jazz.
Dave Black, 78, Alameda resident and jazz drummer toured and recorded with Duke Ellington’s big band in the mid-1950s.
David Blume, composer and record producer wrote the 1966 hit “Turn Down Day.”
Walter Booker, 72, bass player who provided the rhythmic foundation for Cannonball Adderley, Sarah Vaughan and other prominent jazz musicians.
James Brown, 73, the Godfather of Soul, was a creator and leading performer of R&B, funk and disco music, recording such hits as “I Got You (I Feel Good)” and “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag.”
Ruth Brown, 78, 1950s R&B star who earned the nickname “Miss Rhythm.”
Anthony Burger, 44, gospel pianist played for the popular Gaither Homecoming shows.
Don Butterfield, 83, tuba player performed with Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra.
Lumumba Carson, 49, the hip-hop artist known as Professor X, was a former member of X-Clan.
Janette Carter, 82, last surviving child of country music’s Carter Family.
William Cowsill, 58, lead singer of the Cowsills, the ’60s family band that inspired “The Partridge Family” TV show.
Shoshana Damari, 83, one of Israel’s most popular singers was known for her nationalist anthems.
Kenny Davern, 71, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist was a torchbearer of traditional jazz and swing.
Desmond Dekker, 63, the Jamaican singer known as “the king of ska,” recorded the early reggae hit “The Israelites.”
Pierre Delanoe, 88, French lyricist who wrote more than 5,000 songs, including “Et maintenant” (”What Now My Love”) and “Je t’appartiens” (”Let It Be Me”).
Miguel “Anga” Diaz, 45, virtuosic Cuban conga player became one of the world’s best-known percussionists.
Hamza El Din, 76, oud player and composer reinvented the musical culture of Nubia and carried it worldwide.
Dirk Dirksen, 69, godfather of San Francisco punk rock and the often abrasive ringmaster of the North Beach punk emporium Mabuhay Gardens.
Floyd Dixon, 77, master of West Coast rhythm-and-blues (”Hey Bartender”), inspired Ray Charles to adopt a grittier gospel sound.
Edwin Duhon, 95, founder of Grammy-nominated Hackberry Ramblers.
Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer known for “She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime” and “It Couldn’t Have Been Any Better.”
Rogerio Duprat, 74, producer/arranger behind the important albums of Brazil’s 1960s Tropicalia movement.
Rocio Durcal, 61, Spanish actress and singer was one of Latin music’s most sophisticated song stylists.
Richard Egues, 82, musician left an indelible imprint on Cuba’s dance music during the cha-cha-cha craze of the 1950s.
Phil Elwood, 79, longtime San Francisco Examiner music critic, was one of the first to broadcast jazz on FM, in 1952 with “Jazz Archive.”
Ahmet Ertegun, 83, founder of Atlantic Records, the label that popularized Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones.
Sid Feller, 89, producer/arranger helped create an orchestral big band sound for Ray Charles’ “Georgia on My Mind” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You”.
Freddy Fender, 69, Grammy-winning singer, was one of the first Mexican American artists to cross successfully into the mainstream pop market.
Robert “H-Bomb” Ferguson, 77, blues pianist urged listeners to “rock, baby, rock” at the dawn of the rock ‘n’ roll era.
Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer recorded on more than 80 albums with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter and others.
Kay Finegan, 95, big band singer and music arranger worked with Benny Goodman and the Dorsey Brothers.
Danny Flores, 77, played saxophone and shouted “Tequila!” in the 1950s hit song of the same name.
King Floyd III, 61, soul singer and songwriter best known for his 1970 hit “Groove Me.”
Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, raised the accordion’s profile by composing, arranging and playing classical and popular melodies.
Pietro Garinei, 87, musical producer and songwriter told romantic tales of Italy (”Arrivederci Roma”).
Bruce Gary, 54, rock drummer who worked with George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Stephen Stills and was the Knacks original drummer on “My Sharona.”
Georgia Gibbs, 87, a brassy-voiced pop singer, topped the charts in the 1950s with “Kiss of Fire.”
Joe Glazer, 88, troubadour of the U.S. labor movement who performed and composed songs of work and protest for 60 years.
Burt Goldblatt, 82, prolific designer of moody jazz LP album covers for artists Herbie Mann, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae and Charles Mingus.
Irving Green, 90, the co-founder of Mercury Records helped break the color barrier by promoting Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and the Platters.
Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, Steve Wonder’s mother, who helped him write such hit songs as “I Was Made to Love Her” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”
Rufus Harley, 70, billed as “the world’s first jazz bagpiper,” he emitted his haunting sounds alongside some of the jazz greats.
John Hicks, 64, pianist was a prolific mainstay of New York jazz since the late 1960s.
Fletcher Hodges Jr., 99, curator spent five decades preserving the memory of composer Stephen Foster.
Deshaun “Proof” Holton, 32, a member of the hip-hop group D12 who had a bit part the Eminem movie, “Eight Mile.”
Dick “Huggy Boy” Hugg, 78, pioneering rhythm and blues disc jockey whose career spanned five decades in Los Angeles radio.
Johnny Jackson, 54, replaced the Jackson 5’s original drummer, Milford Hite, around 1967.
Johnny Jenkins, 67, flashy left-handed blues guitarist helped to propel the singing career of his former driver Otis Redding.
Duke Jordan, 84, pianist who played with the saxophonist Charlie Parker.
Milton Kaye, 97, pianist/arranger accompanied Heifetz, wrote the theme music for the TV quiz show “Concentration” and played in Toscanini’s orchestra.
Willie Kent, 70, blues bassist backed up Little Walter, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
Roland L. Kohloff, 71, principal timpanist of the New York Philharmonic for 32 years.
Buddy Killen, 73, music publisher, songwriter and record producer who helped launch the careers of Dolly Parton and Bill Anderson.
Narvin Kimball, 97, a founding member of the New Orleans Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
Oscar Klein, 76, Austrian-born jazz legend fled when the Nazis took power and recorded with Lionel Hampton and other greats.
Arthur Lee, 61, the leader of Love, a pioneering 1960s psychedelic rock band.
Homer Ledford, 79, bluegrass musician and instrument maker whose work is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.
Gerald Levert, 40, fiery singer of passionate R&B love songs (”Baby Hold on to Me”) and the son of O’Jays singer Eddie Levert.
Henry Lewy, 79, leading sound engineer worked with the Mamas and the Papas, David Crosby and Van Morrison.
Pio Leyva, 88, Cuban songwriter and singer appeared in the film “Buena Vista Social Club.”
Robert Lockwood Jr., 91, Mississippi Delta bluesman who was taught by Robert Johnson and became a mentor to generations of blues musicians.
Claude Luter, 83, horn player who hobnobbed with Louis Armstrong and was one of France’s most celebrated jazz musicians.
Arif Mardin, 74, won 12 Grammys, including two for best producer, nonclassical, and was an architect of the pop-soul Atlantic Sound in the late ’60s.
Anna Marly, 88, wrote the melody for “Chant des Partisans (Song of the Partisans”), France’s unofficial World War II anthem.
Fred Marsden, 66, drummer in the Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers.
Paul Mauriat, 81, French conductor whose arrangement of “Love Is Blue” topped U.S. charts in the 1960s.
Gene McFadden, 56, part of the team McFadden and Whitehead that wrote and recorded the 1979 hit “Ain’t No Stoppin’ Us Now.”
Jay McShann, 90, legendary bandleader and composer, was one of Kansas City’s last living links to its glory days as a jazz town.
Ruby Lee Grubbs Meyers, 83, a 1960s Washington lounge singer performed at President John F. Kennedy’s inaugural ball.
Grant McLennan, 48, a founder and leader of the influential Australian rock band the Go-Betweens.
Bill Miller, 91, Frank Sinatra’s pianist for nearly 50 years until the singer’s last performance in 1995.
Romano Mussolini, 79, Italian jazz pianist’s fame as the son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was ultimately rivaled by his musical renown.
Sam Myers, 70, Mississippi blues singer and harmonica ace who played with Anson Funderburgh & the Rockets.
Sam Neely, 58, wrote title songs for two movies: 1973’s “Bonnie’s Kids” and the 1979 film “Tilt,” starring Brooke Shields.
Paul Nelson, 70, pioneering rock critic worked for Rolling Stone, Circus and Creem music magazines in the 1960s and ’70s.
Dika Newlin, 82, composer and musicologist who brought the style of avant-garde master Arnold Schoenberg into the punk rock era.
Anita O’Day, 87, whose sassy renditions of “Honeysuckle Rose” and “Sweet Georgia Brown” made her one of the most respected jazz vocalists of the 1940s and ’50s.
Bonnie Owens, 76, singer who married and helped build the careers of country music legends Buck Owens and Merle Haggard.
Buck Owens, 76, the Bakersfield rebel with 21 No. 1 singles, brought a distinctly California flavor to country music and built a Central Valley multimedia empire belying his “Hee Haw” persona.
Buck Page, 84, founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage, a western band whose music conjured up a bygone era.
Nam June Paik, 74, avant-garde composer who was credited with inventing video art.
Denis Payton, 63, saxophone player in the British pop band the Dave Clark Five.
Aladar Pege, 67, world-renowned bassist who moved with ease from jazz to classics.
John R. Pepper II, 91, co-founder in the 1940s of Memphis radio station WDIA-AM, which helped launch the careers of B.B. King and Isaac Hayes.
Wilson Pickett, 64, the leading soul singer best known for the fiery hits “Mustang Sally” and “In the Midnight Hour.”
Gene Pitney, 66, 1960s teenage idol, had hits with “Town Without Pity,” “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” and “Only Love Can Break a Heart.”
June Pointer, 52, youngest of the Pointer Sisters, known for the ’70s and ’80s hits “I’m So Excited,” “Fire” and “Slow Hand.”
Basil Poledouris, 61, composed the Emmy-winning score for the TV miniseries “Lonesome Dove” and opening fanfare for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Billy Preston, 59, exuberant keyboardist, landed dream gigs with the Beatles and Rolling Stones and had hits with “Outta Space” and “Nothing From Nothing.”
Lou Rawls, 72, velvet-voiced singer of such classics as “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine.”
Dewey Redman, 75, poetic tenor saxophonist and bandleader who had been at the aesthetic frontiers of jazz since the 1960s.
Cheikha Rimitti, 83, known as the “mother of rai,” the Algerian music of dissent.
Hilton Ruiz, 54, versatile and prolific pianist played modern jazz and Latin music.
Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian pop music composer who influenced scores of musicians in his native country.
Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer whose eclectic music brought together European Romanticism, Mexican folk song and minimalism.
Bernard “Buddy” Seigal, 48, fiery music journalist was a founder of the country-rock band Beat Farmers.
Jockey Shabalala, 62, member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, South Africa’s most famous a cappella ensemble.
Arthur Shimkin, 84, Grammy-winning producer of children’s records, including Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales.
Lawrence “Ram Rod” Shurtliff, 61, Grateful Dead crew member became president of the band’s board of directors in the 1970s.
Jumpin’ Gene Simmons, 69, rockabilly singer-songwriter worked with Elvis Presley and had a top 20 hit in 1964 with “Haunted House.”
Sivuca, 76, accordionist, composer and arranger known for his work with South African singer Miriam Makeba.
Bennie Smith, 72, St. Louis blues legend played with Chuck Berry and Ike and Tina Turner.
Soraya, 37, singer who won a 2004 Latin Grammy for the best singer-songwriter album.
Claydes Charles Smith, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool & the Gang.
Nikki Sudden, 49, pioneer of English rock avant-garde, was known for his larger-than-life panache.
Edgar E. Summerlin, 78, tenor saxophonist and composer wrote some of the first jazz music for church services.
Jesse “Guitar” Taylor, 55, musician came to prominence in the Joe Ely Band of the late ’70s.
James Tenney, 72, experimental composer’s music broke new ground through his fancy for startling sounds and novel approaches to pitch, harmony and form.
Ed Thrasher, 74, art director received 12 Grammy Award nominations and in 1974, he and Christopher Whorf won Grammys for Mason Proffit’s “Come & Gone.”
Martha Tilton, 91, one of Benny Goodman’s vocalists in the 1930s was billed as the “Sweetheart of Swing” and appeared on 80 of his recordings.
Ali Farka Toure, 66 or 67, Grammy-winning Malian guitarist-songwriter, merged West African traditions with the blues.
Henry “Mule” Townsend, 96, blues guitarist won a National Heritage Award in 1985 as a master artist.
Phil Walden, 65, Capricorn Records founder launched the careers of Otis Redding and the Allman Brothers Band.
Billy Walker, 77, Grand Ole Opry legend’s hits included “Charlie’s Shoes” and “Cross the Brazos at Waco.”
Cindy Walker, 87, dean of Texas songwriters turned out hits every decade from the 1940s-80s, including “You Don’t Know Me,” “In the Misty Moonlight” and “Cherokee Maiden.”
Don Walser, 72, singer was known in Texas as “the Pavarotti of the Plains” for his clear, powerful tenor.
Walter Ward, 66, lead singer of the Olympics, an R&B group whose biggest hit was the 1958 novelty “Western Movies.”
Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige in 1949 and ran it for more than 20 years.
Vince Welnick, 51, Grateful Dead’s last keyboard player, also performed with Todd Rundgren, the Tubes and Missing Man Formation.
Sandy West, 47, drummer for the all-female ’70s rock band the Runaways, which she co-founded with Joan Jett.
Logan Whitehurst, 29, a founding member of the Bay Area indie rock band the Velvet Teen.
Marijohn Wilkin, 86, songwriter helped pen such classics as “The Long Black Veil” and “One Day at a Time.”
James Yancey, 32, innovative and influential hip-hop producer, was known as J Dilla and Jay Dee.
Theater and Dance
Eve Adamson, 68, founded the Jean Cocteau Repertory company in New York and built it into a respected classical theater company.
Jay Presson Allen, 84, writer made her breakthrough with a stage treatment of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.”
Jovanka Bach, 69, playwright’s dramas included “Balkan Trilogy,” about the turmoil in her ancestral homeland.
Benno Besson, 83, disciple of Bertolt Brecht was one of the most admired stage directors in Europe.
Isabel Bigley, 80, won a Tony Award for her role in the 1950s Broadway musical classic “Guys and Dolls.”
Todd Bolender, 92, internationally known dancer and choreographer left an imprint on New York City Ballet before leading Kansas City Ballet.
Joseph Bova, 81, roles ranged from Prince Dauntless the Drab in the original production of “Once Upon a Mattress” to Shakespeare’s King Richard III.
Roy M. Brewer, 97, fervent anti-communist headed the stagehands union and became one of the most powerful labor leaders in Hollywood during the blacklist era.
Estelle Busch, 91, executive director of Los Angeles’ Synthaxis Theatre Company and a founder of the Equity-waiver theater movement.
Joan Diener, 76, her operatic voice made her a favorite in musicals, especially in the original 1965 “Man of La Mancha.”
Katherine Dunham, 96, legendary dancer, choreographer and social force, a pioneer of African American dance.
Chuck Estes, 59, wrote music for stage productions at South Coast Repertory Theater and the Court Theatre in West Hollywood.
Gilbert Eckern, 81, actor performed in numerous plays at the Eaglet Theatre (now Sacramento Theatre Company) and the Stagedoor Comedy Playhouse.
Cy Feuer, 95, celebrated producer behind Broadway’s “Guys and Dolls,” “Can-Can” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.”
Henderson Forsythe, 88, character actor won the 1979 Tony for outstanding featured actor in a musical, for “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.”
Jill Fraser, 59, owner and artistic director of the Watermill Theater in Newbury, England.
Peter Halasz, 62, avant-garde playwright, actor and director founded the off-off-Broadway ensemble Broadway Squat/Love Theater.
Henry Hewes, 89, longtime theater critic for The Saturday Review and founder of the American Theater Critics Association.
Endesha Ida Mae Holland, 61, dramatist’s best-known play, “From the Mississippi Delta,” chronicled her life in the Jim Crow South.
Jim Hinrichsen, 63, director and producer helped found the League of Sacramento Theaters and the T Street Players.
Barnard Hughes, 90, won a Tony award for his portrayal of the curmudgeonly title character in Hugh Leonard’s “Da.”
Elle Johnson, 83, a mainstay of modern dance and choreography in Los Angeles who founded the Elle Johnson Dance Company.
Justine Johnston, 84, veteran actress was the original Heidi Schiller in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical “Follies.”
Robert Earl Jones, 96, stage and screen actor made his Broadway debut in 1954 in “The Hasty Heart” and was the father of the actor James Earl Jones.
Florence Klotz, 86, won six Tony Awards for costume design, for such Broadway shows as “Grind” (1985) and “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (1993).
Allan Krapow, 78, artist who in the 1950s pioneered an unrehearsed, nonverbal form of theater called “a happening.”
Laura Marchant, 30, co-founder of Long Beach’s now-defunct loud •R• mouth Theatre Company.
Sophie Maslow, 95, danced in Martha Graham’s company from 1931-43 and later choreographed dances for her own dance company.
Anne Meacham, 80, actress’ stage appearances included a role in the original production of Tennessee Williams’ “Suddenly Last Summer.”
Robert Mitchell, 77, scenic designer for shows on and off-Broadway as well as for dance and music performances.
Fayard Nicholas, 91, he and his brother Harold wowed the tap dancing world with their astonishing athleticism.
Willicq Ninja, 45, known as the Grandfather of Vogue, a dance form he helped move from the 1980s New York club scene to the concert stage.
Carrie Nye, 69, was nominated in 1965 for a Tony Award for playing a society lady in the musical “Half a Sixpence.”
Patrick Quinn, 56, former president of the Actors’ Equity Association who was about to become its executive director.
Lloyd Richards, mid-80s, theater director mentored the career of playwright August Wilson and won a Tony Award for directing Wilson’s “Fences” (1987).
Howard Rosenstone, 68, prominent theatrical agent helped shepherd the work of playwrights David Mamet and Wallace Shawn onto the stage.
Lawrence Sacharow, 68, pioneer of biographical theater won an Obie for his production of Len Jenkin’s “Five of Us.”
Harold Scott, 70, actor, producer, director and the first black artistic director of a major American regional theater, the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park.
Moira Shearer, 80, ballerina and actress’ 1948 debut film, “The Red Shoes,” was an international sensation.
Susan Raab Simonson, 37, an associate producer for L.A. Theatre Works.
Art, photography and architecture
Thomas J. Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic magazine photographer and writer.
Benny Andrews, 75, painter and teacher whose work drew on memories of his childhood in the segregated South.
Raul Anguiano, 90, eclectic Mexican painter, sculptor and muralist.
Karel Appel, 85, internationally renowned Dutch painter who helped found the European art movement known as Cobra.
Gregory M. Barton, 59, artist, sculptor and patron of the local arts community who owned Barton Gallery and Michelangelo’s Restaurant in midtown.
Ruth Bernhard, 101, world-famous San Francisco photographer best-known for her black-and-white images of nudes and inanimate objects.
Warren Bolster, 59, innovative photographer helped popularize surfing and skateboarding.
Peter C. Borsari, 67, celebrity photographer’s works include candid moments of Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Jack Nicholson.
Raul Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer documented his country’s political revolution of the 1950s in boldimages.
Francesca Danieli, 52, nationally honored photo collagist was also known for her film with Julia Kim Smith, “One Nice Thing.”
Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist concocted a mythical world of satyrs and nymphs for Playboy and quirky, sophisticated wit for the New Yorker.
Edgar Ewing, 93, artist known for his cubist-inspired paintings.
James Fee, 56, his bleak photographs of rusted cars, abandoned factories and run-down movie theaters depicted what he saw as American culture in decline.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, one of Scotland’s best known sculptors, poets and philosophers.
Harry Fonseca, 60, acclaimed American Indian artist born in Sacramento and deeply influenced by Maidu culture.
Frederick Franck, 97, his sculptures, sketches, paintings and books reflect a constant search for the core of spirituality.
Leonard Freed, 77, prominent photojournalist and member of the Magnum Photography Collective known for his images of the civil rights era.
Jiri K. Frel, 82, professional controversies marked his tenure as the J. Paul Getty Museum’s first antiquities curator.
Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish cubist painter and protege of Pablo Picasso.
Julio Galan, 46, a provocative Neo-Expressionist Mexican painter.
William A. Garnett, 89, longtime UC Berkeley professor pioneered a fine art genre with his sweeping aerial photographs of sand dunes, swamps and plowed fields.
Jim Gary, 66, sculptor’s best-known work transformed derelict car skeletons into graceful skeletons of dinosaurs.
Bill Gottlieb, 89, photographer took some of the most indelible images of musicians bridging the swing and bebop jazz eras.
Dimitri Hadzi, 85, internationally known sculptor whose most famous work is at once mythic and modernist.
George Hall, 65, pioneer of jet and military aircraft photography whose photos appear in books and calendars.
Ralph Hamilton, 59, artist known for iconoclastic portraits.
Masumi Hayashi, 60, photographer used panoramic collages to make statements on toxic waste sites, abandoned prisons and remnants of World War II internment camps.
Tim Hildebrandt, 67, half of the famed Hildebrandt Brothers illustration studio best known for their work on “The Lord of the Rings” and “Star Wars.”
James E. Hinton Jr., 69, documentary photographer’s work of 1960s racial and social upheaval are in the Library of Congress’ permanent collection.
Elaine R.S. Hodges, 69, scientific illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History.
Martha Holmes, 83, one of the first female photographers at Life magazine.
Donelson Hoopes, 73, authority on 19th- and 20th-century American paintings worked at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Pontus Hulten, 82, founding director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Philip Hyde, 84, last of a generation of pioneering landscape photographers that included Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Yale Joel, 87, photographer was a longtime staff member of Life magazine.
Buffie Johnson, 94, painter’s work ranged from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism to larger-than-life hyperrealism.
Kenneth Kendall, 84, portrait painter and sculptor whose best-known work is the bronze bust of James Dean at Los Angeles’ Griffith Observatory.
Harold Lehman, 92, artist was a member of the Post-Surrealist art movement in Southern California.
Catherine Leroy, 60, photojournalist whose images helped tell the story of the Vietnam War in Life magazine and other publications.
Albert C. Martin Jr., 92, architect’s designs, such as for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power building, helped shape that city’s skyline.
Marian McNaughton, 80, first curator of the U.S. Army Art Collection in Washington, D.C.
Stanley Meltzoff, 89, transformed his deep-sea photographs into vibrant paintings for magazines like Sports Illustrated and Scientific American.
Roy Newell, 92, painter of geometric abstracts and one of the original members of the American Abstract Expressionists.
Arnold Newman, 88, helped redefine 20th-century portrait photography.
Martin Nodell, 91, creator of Green Lantern, the comic book superhero who uses his magical ring to help him fight crime.
Gordon Parks, 93, photographer, filmmaker and poet whose pioneering chronicles of the black experience in America made him a revered elder and cultural icon.
Jack Perlmutter, 86, one of Washington’s best-known artists from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Stephen Procuniar, 60, painter, photographerand master printmaker was a familiar presence in Manhattan’s SoHo area.
Donald Reilly, 72, prominent cartoonist best known for his four-decade-long association with The New Yorker.
Jason Rhoades, 41, sculptor garnered international renown for his audacious, wildly diversified, morally provocative installations.
Robert Richenburg, 89, Abstract Expressionist painter whose early works were shown alongside those of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.
Joe Rosenthal, 94, World War II news photographer whose dramatic picture of servicemen raising the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima is one of the most reproduced images of the period.
Mimmo Rotella, 87, one of the last surviving members of the influential French Nouveaux Realistes group.
William Rubin, 78, director of the Museum of Modern Art’s painting and sculpture department helped define the museum’s character in the 1970s and 80s.
Andree Ruellan, 101, noted painter of the 1930s and ’40s whose complete body of work spans almost the entire 20th century.
Arnie Sachs, 78, Washington news photographer took a memorable image in 1963 of young Bill Clinton shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy in the White House Rose Garden.
Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker whose sleek creations found their way into art museums and textbooks on design.
Margaret Elizabeth Schnare, 75, a photographer of performers at work.
Barbara Schwartz, 58, her painted plaster reliefs were tangentially associated with New York’s Pattern and Decoration movement in the late 1970s.
Harry Seidler, 82, Austrian-born architect’s high-rise commercial and residential towers modernized the skyline of Sydney, Australia.
Stella Snead, 96, British Surrealist painter and collage artist became a photographer noted for her books on India.
Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor blended tradition with the vanguard and realism with visual imagination.
Rudi Stern, 69, multimedia artist created psychedelic shows for Timothy Leary and the vibrant neon in Studio 54.
Allan Temko, 81, former San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic won the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. and wrote the definitive book “Notre Dame of Paris.”
Bob Thaves, 81, creator of the long-running comic strip “Frank and Ernest.”
Rosie Lee Tompkins, 70, renowned African-American quiltmaker who lived in Richmond, Calif., and whose work brought her international acclaim.
Marcia Tucker, 66, forceful curator responded to being fired from the Whitney Museum of American Art by founding the New Museum of Contemporary Art.
Ella Tulin, 75, hersculptures underscore the strength and beauty of women and are prized by collectors worldwide.
Myron Waldman, 97, animator and illustrator worked on such characters as Betty Boop, Popeye, Superman, and Casper the Friendly Ghost.
Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, painter was known in New York in the 1980s for his vividly colorful and poetically suggestive abstractions.
John Wilde, 86, American surrealist associated with the Magic Realist school of painting.
Isaac Witkin, 69, sculptor whose bold abstractions shook up London and New York in the 1960s.
Larry Zox, 69, painter known for his work in the color field movement of the 1960s.
Classical music
Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, British composer who won an Oscar for the soundtrack to “The Bridge on the River Kwai.”
Sarah Caldwell, 82, longtime conductor and director of the Opera Company of Boston.
Anselmo Colzani, 87, operatic baritone was a fixture at the Metropolitan Opera and other companies in the 1950s and ’60s.
Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer, concert pianist and scholar of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
Archie Drake, 81, bass baritone with a familiar gaunt face was known as “the soul of Seattle Opera.”
John Drummond, 71, director of the Edinburgh International Festival transformed it into a kaleidoscopic celebration of many arts.
Elliot Forbes, 88, retired Harvard University professor of music whose revision of “Thayer’s Life of Beethoven” became a pillar of Beethoven scholarship.
Herta Glaz, 95, mezzo-soprano performed at the Metropolitan Opera in the ’40s and ’50s and later taught at the Manhattan School of Music.
German Goldenshteyn, 71, celebrated traditional clarinetist forged a crucial link to vibrant klezmer music.
Jozsef Gregor, 66, Hungarian bass who performed with opera companies around the world.
Leonid Hambro, 86, concert pianist was Victor Borge’s comedic sidekick during a decade-long collaboration.
Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, conductor whose musical career was linked to the postwar musical rebirth in Austria and Germany.
Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor led the Melbourne Symphony for more than three decades.
Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor led opera houses throughout Europe and North America in performances of Mozart and Wagner.
Richard Kapp, 69, conductor founded and led the Philharmonia Virtuosi, a chamber orchestra.
Milton Katims, 96, American conductor and noted violist played under Toscanini and led the Seattle Symphony for more than two decades.
Norman Kelley, 95, tenor sang with the New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera and many other companies around the world.
Leighton Kerner, 79, longtime classical music critic for The Village Voice.
Roland L. Kohloff, 71, principal timpanist of the New York Philharmonic for 32 years.
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, internationally acclaimed mezzo-soprano whose repertoire ranged from Baroque to the contemporary.
Gyorgy Ligeti, 83, composer won acclaim for his opera “Le Grand Macabre” and his work on the soundtrack for “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
John Mack, 78, principal oboist with the prestigious Cleveland Orchestra.
Robert McFerrin Sr., 85, a baritone who became the first African American man to sing as a member of the New York Metropolitan Opera.
George Mgrdichian, 71, a virtuoso on the oud, the pear-shaped lute common in Middle Eastern music.
Anna Moffo, 73, American soprano was beloved for her rosy voice, dramatic vulnerability and exceptional beauty.
Harry Newstone, 84, conductor of the Sacramento Symphony from 1965 to 1978, a period when the orchestra became a professional organization.
Verna Osborne, 102, singer performed with the San Francisco Symphony and the San Francisco Opera.
Chris Patton, 57, composed choral music, operas, jazz scores, electronic music and incidental music for theater.
Richard Pearlman, 68, led the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists, which trains young opera singers.
Anna Russell, 94, singer and comedienne famous for her operatic parodies, including a 30-minute synopsis of Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle.
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, famed soprano won global acclaim for her renditions of Mozart and Strauss.
Howard Shanet, 87,conductor and composer wrote an important history, “Philharmonic: A History of New York’s Orchestra.”
Alfredo Silipigni, 72, conductor guided the New Jersey State Opera to a highly respected professional company.
Leopold Simoneau, 90, the Canadian lyric tenor who dominated international Mozart performance in the 1950s.
Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone portrayed Wagnerian roles at the Metropolitan Opera and the Bayreuth Festival.
Arnold Sundgaard, 96, librettist and playwright worked with leading composers and also wrote plays, stories and children’s books.
Astrid Varnay, 88, soprano made her Metropolitan Opera debut — without rehearsal — in a nationally broadcast performance.
David Weber, 92, clarinetist was one of the last links to the pioneers of American woodwind-playing.
Literary
Walter Allner, 97, art director of Fortune magazine introduced a European Modernist typographic sensibility to American magazine design.
Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright known for satirical depictions of authoritarian Arab regimes.
Trevor Armbrister, 72, Reader’s Digest correspondent also ghostwrote Gerald R. Ford’s best-selling presidential memoirs.
Duygu Asena, 60, best-selling author of “Woman Has No Name” and crusader for women’s rights in Turkey.
Jim Baen, 62, founder of the science-fiction book publishing company Baen Books.
Sybille Bedford, 94, her debut novel, “A Legacy,” earned her a place in England’s most exclusive literary circles.
Peter Benchley, 65, whose first novel, “Jaws,” sold 20 million copies and helped invent the Hollywood summer blockbuster when Steven Spielberg made it into a 1975 movie.
Susan Bergman, 48, her book “Anonymity” reflected on her past after learning that her dying father had a secret life as a gay man.
Richard P. Brickner, 72, novelist, memoirist and critic known for his explorations of an automobile accident that left him permanently paralyzed.
Anthony Cave Brown, 77, British espionage novelist whose works included “Treason in the Blood.”
Herbert Burkholz, 73, mystery novelist wrote 10 novels and two nonfiction books, including “The FDA Follies.”
Frederick Busch, 64, his precise novels and stories delved into the experiences of people grappling with existential crises.
Octavia E. Butler, 58, first black woman to gain national prominence as a science fiction writer (”Kindred”).
Bebe Moore Campbell, 56, whose many best-sellers, such as “Brothers and Sisters,” touched on America’s ethnic and social divides.
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, 98, teamed up with her brother Frank Gilbreth Jr. to write the best-selling “Cheaper By the Dozen” (1948).
Richard Carlson, 45, Walnut Creek psychotherapist who wrote “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” and 30 other motivational books.
Otis Carney, 83, advertising writer and journalist became a scriptwriter (”Johnny Guitar”) and author of 1959’s “Yesterday’s Hero.”
Curtis Cate, 82, American biographer chronicled the lives of well-known European writers, including Nietzsche, George Sand and Andre Malraux.
Dave Cockrum, 63, illustrator helped invent a new look and characters for the “X-Men” comics, which became America’s most popular comic books.
Maureen Daly, 85, her coming-of-age novel “Seventeenth Summer” in 1942 was credited with launching modern young adult literature.
William Diehl, 81, best-selling author of “Sharky’s Machine,” “Primal Fear” and other novels.
Theodore Draper, 93, historian and social critic.
Wilma Dykeman, 86, in 18 novels and nonfiction books chronicled the lives of the people of Appalachia.
Barbara Epstein, 77, a founding editor of the New York Review of Books.
Jacques Faizant, 87, French editorial cartoonist’s work was a fixture in the newspaper Le Figaro for more than four decades.
Henry Farrell, 85, author of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”
Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish poet and conceptual artist known for his neo-Classical-style sculptures inscribed with poetic texts.
Morton Freedgood, 93, best-selling author of “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” and other novels under the pen name John Godey.
Betty Friedan, 85, whose manifesto “The Feminine Mystique” laid the groundwork for the modern feminist movement.
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, acclaimed Ethiopian playwright was the country’s poet laureate.
John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, economist and author of “The Affluent Society” and many other books, was U.S. ambassador to India under John F. Kennedy.
John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, his children’s book “Stone Fox” sold more than 3 million copies and was made as a TV movie.
Ruth Gay, 83, wrote nonfiction books documenting Jewish life in the Old World and the New.
Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery writer produced intricately plotted thrillers.
Norma Lorre Goodrich, 89, prolific author and former professor who unearthed what she called the true story behind the legend of King Arthur.
Gerald Green, 84, author of “The Last Angry Man,” a 1956 book about a heroic doctor who worked in New York’s slums.
Barbara Guest, 85, prominent modernist poet was the only female member of the famed New York School of poets of the late 1950s and early ’60s.
Patricia Guiver, 76, wrote six novels featuring pet detective Delilah Doolittle, who seeks out missing animals with a Doberman named Watson.
Joseph Hayes, 88, author transformed his 1954 novel “The Desperate Hours” into a Tony Award-winning play and Hollywood screenplay.
Heinrich Harrer, 93, adventurer befriended the Dalai Lama and was portrayed by Brad Pitt in “Seven Years in Tibet,” the movie based on his 1953 memoir.
Milton Himmelfarb, 87, noted essayist for Commentary magazine known for wry observations on Jewish affairs.
Tana Hoban, 88, photographer and author produced more than 50 children’s books, including “Shapes and Things.”
Robert K. Hoffman, 59, co-founder and managing editor of National Lampoon magazine, spawned from the Harvard Lampoon.
J.S. “Jim” Holliday, 82, eminent historian of California and the West who wrote the best-selling “The World Rushed In” (1981) and was founding director of the Oakland Museum of California.
Jane Jacobs, 89, author of “The Death and Life of Great American Cities,” an influential critique of urban planning.
Mazisi Kunene, 76, the first poet laureate of democratic South Africa who wrote many of his most acclaimed works while living in Los Angeles.
Stanley Kunitz, 100, former U.S. poet laureate and winner of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Medal of the Arts and — at age 90 — a National Book Award.
Irving Layton, 93, prolific writer and one of Canada’s top poets who published more than 40 books over five decades.
Norman Lewis, 93, an authority on English grammar and usage who catalogued obscure words and counseled correct pronunciation in dozens of books.
Naguib Mahfouz, 94, the first Arab author to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
Ronald Mansbridge, 100, publisher who established the first U.S. branch of Cambridge University Press in the late 1940s.
Florence Mars, 84, her book “Witness in Philadelphia,” about the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, made her a target of the Ku Klux Klan.
John McGahern, 71, his depiction of love and despair in repressive rural Ireland made him one of his country’s most acclaimed fiction writers (”Amongst Women”).
Judith Moore, 66, author of last year’s “Fat Girl,” a searingly angry and widely praised memoir about being overweight.
Doris Muscatine, 80, popularized California cuisine and wines with “A Cook’s Tour of San Francisco” and “Old San Francisco.”
Rolf Myller, 79, architect’s eclectic pursuits included writing children’s books, including “How Big Is a Foot?” (1962).
Joe Nazel, 62, wrote biographies of such black luminaries as Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes and Paul Robeson.
Eric Newby, 86, British author of the travel classic “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush.”
Charles Newman, 67, novelist, critic and founding editor of TriQuarterly, one of the country’s pre-eminent literary magazines.
Nena O’Neill, co-author of the best-selling “Open Marriage,” which helped spread the youthful sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, the author of 46 books, most of them tales of romance and mystery set in Maine.
Mary Orr, 95, actress and writer whose first short story, about a scheming ingenue named Eve Harrington, became the Oscar-winning film “All About Eve.”
Robert W. Peterson, 80, his pioneering history of the Negro leagues, “Only the Ball Was White,” recaptured a lost era in baseball history.
Denne Bart Petitclerc, 76, his friendship with Ernest Hemingway in the 1950s led to his adapting “Islands in the Stream” for the screen.
Rupert Pole, 87, literary executor for his wife, feminist heroine Anais Nin, he oversaw publication of four “unexpurgated” volumes of her erotic journals.
Raja Rao, 97, internationally renowned Indian novelist (”Kanthapura.”)
Donald Reilly, 72, a cartoonist whose slightly menacing sense of humor dotted the pages of The New Yorker magazine for more than 40 years.
Philip Ressner, 83, author of successful children’s books, including “August Explains,” about a wise old bear is very good at magic.
Ralph Schoenstein, 73, humorist was a commentator on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and a ghostwriter whose works included Bill Cosby’s “Fatherhood.”
Retired Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott, 97, World War II fighter ace wrote “God is My Co-Pilot,” which was made into a 1945 movie.
Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, Stanford University professor wrote 15 novels, including a parodist’s feast called “Mulligan Stew.”
Muriel Spark, 88, Scottish author of “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” and other novels.
Mickey Spillane, 88, whose Mike Hammer private eye novels made him one of the best-selling authors of the 20th century.
Elizabeth Stromme, 59, her noir novel “Joe’s Word” was set in her Los Angeles’ Echo Park neighborhood.
Lyle Stuart, 83, renegade journalist and publisher whose picaresque life included the publication of “Naked Came the Stranger” and the decision to print “The Anarchist Cookbook.”
Anne Margaret “Sandy” Sturges, 79, used the unfinished manuscript of her late husband, film auteur Preston Sturges, as the basis for the book “Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges.”
William Styron, 81, won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Confessions of Nat Turner” and a National Book Award for “Sophie’s Choice.”
Theodore Taylor, 85, his novel “The Cay,” sold more than 4 million copies and has been a classroom staple for decades.
Julia Thorne, 61, former wife of Sen. John Kerry turned her experience with depression into a best-selling book, “You Are Not Alone,” with Larry Rothstein.
Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, chronicled Indonesia’s battle for independence against the Dutch in novels composed in prison.
Denis Twitchett, 80, scholar created 15-volume “The Cambridge History of China,” the most comprehensive history of China in the English language.
Dorothy Uhnak, 76, onetime New York City Transit Authority policewoman wrote such crime novels as novels “Law and Order,” “Victims,” the “Christie Opara” series.
Michelle Urry, 66, brought an ability to nurture eccentric artists to her job as Playboy magazine’s cartoons editor.
Jade Snow Wong, 84, her memoir “Fifth Chinese Daughter” offers a rare glimpse into San Francisco’s Chinatown in the early 1900s.
Hilda van Stockum, 98, won honors from the Newbery Medal committee in 1935 for her first book, “A Day on Skates: The Story of a Dutch Picnic.”
Peter Viereck, 89, noted historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a founder of the mid-20th-century American conservative movement.
Fausto Vitello, 59, founder of Thrasher magazine, for a quarter-century the rebellious bible of the skateboarding subculture.
Phyllis Cerf Wagner, 90, socially dynamic wife of two prominent men was proudest of collaborating with former advertising colleague Dr. Seuss on a series of landmark children’s books.
Wendy Wasserstein, 55, wrote “The Heidi Chronicles,” which in 1996 won both the best-play Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Jack Williamson, 98, distinguished writer of science fiction whose best-known novel is “The Humanoids” (1949).
Alexander Zinoviev, 83, author won wide repute for his savage satires of Soviet society and became a surprising apologist for Communism after its demise.
Food and wine
Robert C. Baker, 84, Cornell University professor created ground poultry, chicken nuggets, turkey ham and poultry hot dogs.
Alexis Bespaloff, 71, wine expert and author of the million-selling “The Signet Book of Wine.”
Al Brounstein, 86, Napa Valley vintner (Diamond Creek Vineyards) was an early proponent of making wines from a single vineyard and charging high prices for them.
Bruce David Colen, 81, Los Angeles magazine’s restaurant critic from 1974 to 1995, chronicled an era of the city’s growing culinary influence.
Bobby Fetzer, 50, his Mendocino County family built one of the nation’s biggest wineries, Fetzer Vineyards, before selling it in 1992.
Vernon F. Gerwer, 70, founded an early vineyard in the Fairplay community, launching Gerwer Vineyards and Winery in 1979.
Robert Grimm, 54, vegetable baron nurtured phenomenal sales growth of the baby carrot by introducing innovative packaging.
Dorothy Harmsen, 91, a co-founder of the Jolly Rancher Candy Co., the maker of tangy, slowly dissolving bricks of fruit-flavored candy.
Henri Jayer, 84, French vineyard worker who rose to become one of the most important winemakers in Burgundy in the 1970s and 1980s.
Rene Lasserre, 93, chef played host to such celebrities as Salvador Dali and Robert de Niro in his eponymous and renowned restaurant in Paris.
William Edman Massee, 87, writer championed American wines at a time when connoisseurs dismissed them as inconsequential.
Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor in 1933 with his brother Pat of the Philadelphia cheesesteak sandwich.
Harold P. Olmo, 96, world famous grape breeder and geneticist who helped to create the modern California wine industry, was associated with the University of California, Davis.
Esther L. Snyder, 86, founded In-N-Out Burger with her husband, opening their first one in Baldwin Park in 1948.
Rodney Strong, 78, left a professional dance career to pioneer the mass production of fine wines in Sonoma County.
Harold Stueve, 88, on of three brothers who in 1945 founded Alta Dena Dairy and introduced drive-through dairies.
Brian Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, wrote the 1993 pop-culture paean “Hamburger Heaven: The Illustrated History of the Hamburger.”
Claude Terrail, 88, owner since 1947 of the Paris culinary landmark La Tour d’Argent.
Winston “Win” Wilson Jr., 63, a founder of the Napa Valley wine importers Wilson Daniels Ltd., the American source of France and Italy’s important wines.
Popular culture
Stew Albert, 66, cofounded the countercultural Yippies (Youth International Party), along with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin.
R.W. Apple Jr., 71, longtime New York Times correspondent charted the fall of Richard Nixon and covered wars while having a parallel career as a food and travel writer.
Joyce Ballantyne Brand, 88, artist created the iconic image for Coppertone sun lotion of a puppy tugging on a child’s swimsuit bottom.
Susan Butcher, 51, sled-dog racing pioneer won the Iditarod race four times and influenced the training and treatment of dogs in the sport.
Ann Calvello, 76, made her mark with a loud look, trashy mouth and rough skating style as a member of roller derby’s San Francisco Bay Bombers.
Bill Cardoso, 68, journalist coined the term “gonzo” to describe the frenetic participatory journalism practiced by Hunter S. Thompson.
Rebecca Webb Carranza, 98, Los Angeles businesswoman played an important role in popularizing the now ubiquitous tortilla chip.
Oleg Cassini, 92, son of impoverished Italian and Russian nobility achieved fame and wealth as a fabulously successful couturier.
Otis Chandler, 78, as publisher of the Los Angeles Times (1960-1980). he catapulted the paper from mediocrity into the front ranks of American journalism.
Dorothea Towles Church, 83, first successful black model in Paris.
Helen Barbara Cohn, 92, also known as Bobbie Nudie, her business savvy helped her husband create the legendary Nudie suit and become king of the Western costumers.
Nellie Connally, 87, the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy’s limousine when he was assassinated was the last living person who had been part of that fateful Dallas drive.
Del Courtney, 95, big-band leader in the 1930s performed at four presidential inaugural balls, was music director of the Oakland Raiders (1975-78) and formed the Raiderettes.
Alexander C. Cushing, 92, founder of the Squaw Valley ski resort whose odds-defying landing of the 1960 Winter Olympics helped spur skiing’s popularity in this country.
Iva Toguri D’Aquino, 90, Japanese-American convicted of treason in 1949 for broadcasting propaganda from Japan to U.S. servicemen in World War II as Tokyo Rose.
Martin Feinstein, 84, former executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and general manager of the Washington National Opera.
Jack Fiske, 88, the voice of boxing for the West Coast during more than 40 years of covering the sport for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Ofelia Fox, 82, once known as the first lady of Havana’s Tropicana Nightclub, a Cuban show palace in the 1950s.
Coretta Scott King, 78, Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow was an avid proselytizer for his vision of racial peace and non-violent social change.
Sonny King, 83, veteran Las Vegas lounge singer was a longtime sidekick of Jimmy Durante and had ties to the Rat Pack.
Boris Koytchou, 86, colorful contract bridge player represented France and later the United States in major international competitions.
Bernard Lacoste, 74, inherited the Lacoste fashion company from his father, the French tennis champion Rene Lacoste, and directed it into a billion-dollar company recognizable by its signature crocodile logo.
Rene Lasserre, 93, chef played host to such celebrities as Salvador Dali and Robert de Niro in his eponymous and renowned restaurant in Paris.
George Lenchner, 88, a mathematician who founded the Math Olympiads tournaments for schoolchildren.
Edna Lewis, 89, her cookbooks revived the nearly forgotten genre of refined Southern cooking while offering a glimpse into black American farm life in the early 20th century.
George Lee Lutz, 59, the 28 days his family lived in an Amityville, N.Y., house became the source for the 1977 book, “The Amityville Horror” and a 1979 movie.
Andrew Martinez, 33, so-called “Naked Guy” who gained national notoriety for attending classes at the University of California, Berkeley, in the nude.
Joan Maynard, 77, shepherded the preservation of Weeksville, a 19th-century community of free blacks in Brooklyn that had faded from maps and memory.
Jack Macpherson, 69, a key figure in the 1960s Southern California surf scene who co-founded a fabled group described in Tom Wolfe’s “The Pump House Gang.”
Steven Medley, 57, president of the nonprofit Yosemite Association and author of “The Complete Guidebook to Yosemite,” which has sold more than 100,000 copies.
Deforrest “Moe” Most, 89, “ambassador” of Venice Beach’s famed Muscle Beach who performed gymnastics a half-century ago before curious crowds.
Doris Muscatine, 80, food and wine writer helped introduce California cooking to the rest of the country.
Floyd Patterson, 71, gentleman boxer was the two-time world heavyweight champion, knocking out Archie Moore and Ingemar Johansson.
Walter Clyde Pearson, 77, created no-limit freeze-out poker, which Benny Binion turned into the World Series of Poker at his Las Vegas casino in 1970.
Mary Ritts, 95, with husband Paul, she created and performed the longtime Ritts Puppets act on television.
Harold Ronk, 85, ringmaster sang “Welcome to the Circus!” at the start of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey performances for 30 years.
A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent became the New York Times’ executive editor in 1977.
Alan Shalleck, 76, wrote and directed more than 100 short episodes of “Curious George” on the Disney Channel.
Spoony Singh, 83, founder of the world-famous Hollywood Wax Museum.
Damu Smith, 54, internationally known peace activist advocated for a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in the 1980s.
Abbye “Pudgy” Stockton, 88, pioneer female weightlifter helped put Santa Monica’s Muscle Beach on the map in the 1930s and ’40s.
Joseph Ungaro, 76, former newspaper managing editor whose question to President Nixon at an editors meeting elicited his “I’m not a crook” reply.
– Compiled by Dixie Reid from Bee news services.
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