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Archive for December, 2009

GUITARIST JAMES GURLEY DIES

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

CAUSE OF DEATH: HEART ATTACK

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James Gurley (December 22, 1939 – December 20, 2009) was an American musician. He is best known as the guitar player of Big Brother and the Holding Company, a psychedelic/acid rock band from San Francisco.

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COMIC ACTOR ARNOLD STANG DIES

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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CAUSE OF DEATH: PNEUMONIA

Arnold Stang (September 28, 1918 – December 20, 2009) was an American comic actor who played a small and bespectacled, yet brash and knowing big-city type.

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ACTRESS CONNIE HINES OF MR. ED FAME, DIES

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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CAUSE OF DEATH: HEART PROBLEMS

Connie Hines (March 24, 1931 – December 18, 2009) was a retired American actress, best-remembered for playing Alan Young's wife, Carol Post, on the 1960s syndicated and then CBS sitcom Mister Ed.

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FOLK-ROCKER VIC CHESNUTT DIES AT 45

Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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CAUSE OF DEATH: OVERDOSE OF MUSCLE RELAXANTS

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SAVANT (RAIN MAN INSPIRATION) KIM PEEK DIES

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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CAUSE OF DEATH: HEART ATTACK

Kim Peek (11 November 1951 – 19 December 2009) was an American prodigious savant known as a megasavant. He had a photographic or eidetic memory, but also social developmental disabilities, possibly resulting from congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the character of Raymond Babbitt, played by Dustin Hoffman, in the movie Rain Man. He was not autistic and likely had FG syndrome.

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SESAME STREET STAR ALAINA REED-AMINI DIES

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

CAUSE OF DEATH: BREAST CANCER

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Alaina Reed Hall (November 10, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American actress best known for her roles as Olivia, Gordon's younger sister, on the long-running children's television series Sesame Street, and Rose Lee Holloway on the NBC sitcom 227.

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