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# Recent celebrity deaths

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Famous people who have died recently.

August

  1, Poul Anderson -- fantasy / sci-fi author

July

  29?, [Henryk Jablonski]? -- president of Poland (1972?-1985?)
  27, [Leon Wilkeson]?, aged 49 -- Bassist for [Lynyrd Skynyrd]?
  11, Herman Brood, aged 54 -- Dutch rock musician, painter and publicity freak (suicide)
  5, [Hannelore Kohl]?, aged 68 -- wife of ex-chancellor of Germany [Helmut Kohl]? (suicide)

June

  30, [Chet Atkins]?, aged 77 -- country musician
  28, [Joan Sims]?, aged 71 -- actress
  28, Jack Lemmon, aged 76 -- actor
  21, Carroll O'Connor, aged 76 -- actor
  21, John Lee Hooker, aged 83 -- Blues musician
  11, [Timothy McVeigh]?, aged 33 -- terrorist (executed by U.S. government)
  3, [Anthony Quinn]?, aged 86 -- actor
  1, King Birendra and Queen Aiswarya of Nepal -- (shot, possibly murdererd)
  1, [Hank Ketcham]?, aged 81 -- creator of Dennis the Menace

May

  12, [Perry Como]?, aged 87 -- singer
  12, Douglas Adams, aged 49 -- author (heart attack)
  5, [Cliff Hillegass]?, aged 83 -- creator of Cliff Notes (stroke)

April

  15, Joey Ramone -- lead singer for The Ramones
  11?, [Harry Secombe]?, aged 79 -- actor, member of The Goon Show (prostate cancer)
  10?, [Willie Stargell]? -- Baseball Hall of Famer

March

  22?, [William Hanna]? -- cofounder (with [Joseph Barbera]?) of famous Hanna-Barbera? animation studio
  21?, Norma Macmillan -- voice of [Casper the Friendly Ghost]? and Gumby cartoon characters
  18?, [John Phillips]? -- cofounder of Popular Music group [The Mamas and the Papas]?
  15, [Ann Sothern]? -- actress
  12?, [Robert Ludlum]? -- author of spy novels
  12?, Morton Downey, Jr. -- television personality

February

  18?, Dale Earnhardt -- NASCAR race car driver

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