The Lives They Lived

[radiofan]

From the NY Times ...

As 2010 comes to a close, we bring you our annual idiosyncratic collage of stories about people who died over the last year. Some of them were quite famous. Some lived primarily private lives. And most lived, by choice or circumstance, in the realm of the little-bit-famous. Though these essays do mark deaths, we like to think of them as a collection of narratives that celebrate lives.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010 ... tml?src=tp

[Steve Sanderson]

From my friends at hollywoodmemoir.com
Here is a list of some more 'Almost Un-noticed Deaths' from 2010.

* December 24: John Warhola, Andy Warhol’s Brother and Foundation/Museum Founder, dies of pneumonia 85.
* December: Ted Kennedy's Famous Dog, Splash, Dies.
* December 24: 20th century financial titan Roy Neuberger dies 107
* December 17: Lina Romay, who sang with Xavier Cugat orchestra and became a film and TV actress dies at 91.
* December 9: John duPont, heir to Du Pont chemical fortune and convicted murderer, dies in prison 72.
* December 2, 2010: Don King's wife, Henrietta, dies at 87
* November 30: Garry Gross, fashion photographer known for his 1970s nude images of Brooke Shields, taken
when she was 10 years old (heart attack) at 73.
* October 20, 2010: Bob Guccione, founder and publisher of Penthouse (79).
* July 19, 2010: David Warren, Australian inventor of the black box flight-data recorder, at 85.
* June 16, 2010: Ronald Neame, director of 'Poseidon Adventure' dies at 99.
* June 1, 2010: Ron Zappe, Zapp's potato chip founder, dies 67
* May 31, 2010: Chris Haney, co-creator of board game Trivial Pursuit (59)
* March 15, 2010: Pingping, the world's shortest man, 29 inches tall, died of heart complications at the age of 21.
* March 6, 2010: Bruce J. Graham, Chicago Architect Who Designed Sears Tower, dies at 84 .
* February 28, 2010: T-Bone Wolk, bass player for Hall & Oates, dies 58.
* February 16, 2010: Ronald Howes, inventor of Easy Bake oven dies 83.
* February 9, 2010: Fred Morrison, Frisbee Inventor, Dies 90?
* January 17, 2010: Glen W. Bell Jr - Taco Bell Founder 86.
* January 10, 2010: Donald E. Goerke, creator of SpaghettiO's, dies at 83 of heart failure.

[jon]

Dale Patterson's Rock Radio Scrapbook does their annual wrap on deaths of broadcasters that fit into their interest area. Here is the 2010 edition:

GONE, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN...

As we do every year at this time, let's look back at some of the radio people we said goodbye to in the past year...

Art Rust, Jr. (Jan. 12)
Gene Cheneault (Feb. 23)
Ron Lundy (Mar. 15)
Ernie Harwell (May 4)
Gwyn "Jocko" Thomas (May 5)
Robert O. Smith (May 30)
Chris "The Magic Christian" Charles (July 2)
Tom Noonan (July 14)
John Manzi a.k.a. Big Ange (July 18)
Craig M. Smith (Sept. 6)
John Kluge (Sept. 7)
Ken Griffin (Sept. 28)
Mal Faris (Oct. 10)
Jerry Marshall (Oct. 14)
Boom Boom Brannigan (Oct. 19)
Charlie O'Donnell (Nov. 1)
Mike Ryan (Nov. 8)
Tom Dooley (Nov. 9)
Mark Dailey (Dec. 6)
Clay Cole (Dec. 18)
Fred Foy (Dec. 22)
Neil Rogers (Dec. 24)

ref. - http://rockradioscrapbook.ca

[jon]

From the NY Times ...

As 2010 comes to a close, we bring you our annual idiosyncratic collage of stories about people who died over the last year. Some of them were quite famous. Some lived primarily private lives. And most lived, by choice or circumstance, in the realm of the little-bit-famous. Though these essays do mark deaths, we like to think of them as a collection of narratives that celebrate lives.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010 ... tml?src=tp

One of the pictures on that page links to an article about Bobby Hebb. In it, is an answer to a question I had long had:
"Within a couple of days in 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated and Harold was killed in a knife fight outside a bar. Bobby often said that he wrote “Sunny” as a reaction to that cursed weekend,...."

I had heard two different stories as to why Bobby wrote the song: the death of his brother and the death of JFK. Now I know that both were right.

[Neumann Sennheiser]

Here is a list of some more 'Almost Un-noticed Deaths' from 2010.

* December: Ted Kennedy's Famous Dog, Splash, Dies.

"Splash"?
That's too hilarious.
Anyone old enough to remember the events at Chappaquidick in the summer of 69' will get Senator Ted's dark sense of humor in naming his dog Splash.

* February 16, 2010: Ronald Howes, inventor of Easy Bake oven dies 83.

The deceased reportedly requested no flowers and a small memorial service immediately followed by an extremely slow cremation.

[freqfreak2]

Anyone old enough to remember ...

This spoof:

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/tedvolkswagen.jpg