Well, we're 8 months into 2009 and hardly anyone who was really famous when I was a kid is left standing. Let's take a look back at who we've lost so far:
- Ricardo Montalbán 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure
- John Updike, 76, American author, lung cancer
- Orlando "Cachaito" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery
- Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized.
- Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster.
- Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma
- David Carradine, 72, American actor and film director, hanged.
- Ed McMahon, 86, American television host
- Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer.
- Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter, acute propofol intoxication.
- Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author, complicatiions due to melanoma
- Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke
- Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.
- John Hughes, 59, American film director, screenwriter, and producer, heart attack
- Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia
- Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts, brain cancer
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