A Year In Review
Last Updated: December 27
Our 2010 Scoring Roster
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 George Steinbrenner |
 Jack Tatum |
 Tony Curtis |
 Barbara Billingsley |
 Benoit Mandelbrot |
 Tom Bosley |
 Elizabeth Edwards |
 Bob Feller |
Big deaths rendered meaningless because nobody scored.
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| Peter Graves |
Robert Culp |
John Forsythe |
Ronnie James Dio | Gary Coleman |
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| Leslie Nielsen | Dino de Laurentiis |
The B-List
Folks who, while not quite rising to the level of Headliner, were still of note.
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Pernell Roberts
(1/24, 81) - Bonanza's Adam Cartwright, and Trapper
John, MD Merlin Olsen (3/10, 69) - NFL Hall of Famer, Little House actor, FTD spokesman Fess Parker (3/18, 85) - starred as Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone Dixie Carter (4/10, 70) - Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women |
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Lynn Redgrave
(5/2, 67) - stage, film, and tv star. Younger
sister of Vanessa Art Linkletter (5/26, 97) - former host of almost everything Jimmy Dean (6/13, 81) - country singer and sausage-meister Harvey Pekar (7/12, 70) - Cleveland-based comic author, subject of 2003's American Splendor |
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Jack
Horkheimer (8/20, 72) - host of PBS' Star Hustler / Star Gazer
"Keep Looking Up" Robert Schimmel (9/3, 60) - comic Glenn Shadix (9/7, 58) - actor, best known as Otho from Beetlejuice As The World Turns (9/17, 54) - TV's oldest daytime drama |
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Eddie
Fisher (9/22, 82) - Pop singer, celebrity spouse
(Liz Taylor x3, Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher's dad) Stephen J. Cannell (9/30, 69) - either wrote or produced any 80's tv worth watching Gloria Stuart (9/26, 100) - Titanic actress Greg Giraldo (9/29, 44) - Comic, roaster |
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Cathy
(10/3, 34) - Long-running comic strip. Ack. Bob Guccione (10/20, 79) - founder, Penthouse Jill Clayburgh (11/5, 66) - Multiple Emmy and Oscar nominee Pontiac (10/31, 84) - American muscle car company |
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Steve Landesberg
(12/20, 74) - Barney Miller's Sgt. Dietrich, and tons
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Minor celebrities, various other entertainment names.
Art Clokey (1/8, 88) - Creator of Gumby Casey Johnson (1/4, 30) - Socialite celebutard, heiress to Johnson & Johnson fortune Robert Parker (1/18, 77) - author of Spencer novels Erich Segal (1/17, 72) - author of Love Story Jennifer Lyon (1/19, 37) - Survivor:Palau contestant James Mitchell (1/22, 89) - Pete Cooney on All My Children for 30 years Phil Harris (2/9, 53) - ship captain on Deadliest Catch Andrew Koenig (2/25, 41) - Growing Pains' Boner, and son of Star Trek's Chekov Nan Martin (3/4, 82) - Mrs. Louder on the Drew Carey Show James Aubrey (4/6, 62) - Ralph in Lord of the Flies Eddie Carroll (4/6, 76) - voice of Jiminy Cricket for 40 years Meinhardt Raabe (4/9, 94) - Munchkinland's coroner, one of the last surviving Ilene Woods (7/1, 81) - voice of Cinderella Peter Fernandez (7/15, 83) - voice of Speed Racer James Gammon (7/16, 70) - Major League's Coach Lou Brown Edward Kean (8/13, 85) - primary writer, Howdy Doody Show Billie May Richardson (9/10, 88) - voice of Rudolph in the claymation Christmas special Leonard Skinner (9/20, 77) - Ronnie Van Zant's high school gym teacher, and inspiration for the band name Alexander Anderson Jr. (10/22, 90) - creator of Rocky & Bullwinkle James MacArthur (10/28, 72) - Hawaii 5-0's Danno Denise Borino-Quinn (10/27, 46) - Soprano's Ginny Sacrimoni Irvin Kershner (11/27, 87) - director of Empire Strikes Back and Never Say Never Fred Foy (12/22, 89) - announcer for the Lone Ranger tv show
Sports
| Mosi Tatupu
(2/23, 54) - 1980's Patriots running back Robin Roberts (5/6, 83) - Hall of Fame Phillies pitcher Jose Lima (5/23, 37) - Former all-star pitcher for the Dodgers, Astros, and Tigers John Wooden (6/4, 99) - greatest college basketball coach. Ever. |
  
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| Manute Bol
(6/19, 47) - 7' 7" NBA player and Sudanese
humanitarian Bob Probert (7/5, 45) - longtime NHL enforcer Bobby Thomson (8/16, 86) - The Giants Win The Pennant!! George Blanda (9/27, 83) - Ageless NFL QB and kicker |
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| Sparky Anderson
(11/4, 76) - Hall of Fame Reds and Tigers manager Ron Santo (12/2, 70) - Longtime Cub player and broadcaster "Dandy" Don Meredith (12/5, 72) - Cowboy QB and MNF commentator |
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Gaines Adams (1/17, 26) - Chicago Bears lineman Nodar Kumaratishvili (2/12, 21) - Georgian luger Willie Davis (3/9, 69) - LA Dodger All-Star center fielder Juan Antonio Samaranch (4/21, 89) - former IOC president (1980 - 2001) Norman Hand (5/14, 37) - 10-year NFL lineman Dorothy Kamenshek (5/17, 84) - inspiration for the Geena Davis character in A League of Their Own Don Coryell (7/1, 85) - innovative former NFL head coach Mel Turpin (7/8, 49) - former NBA player Bob Sheppard (7/11, 99) - 'voice of the Yankees' Ralph Houk (7/21, 90) - longtime Yankee/Tiger/Red Sox manager Dave Niehaus (11/10, 75) - Seattle Mariners broadcaster since their first game Pat Burns (11/19, 58) - three-time NHL coach of the year
Music
 
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Teddy Pendergrass
(1/13, 59) - R&B singer Pauly Fuemana (1/31, 40) - Lead singer of OMC, one hit wonders for 1995's How Bizarre Don van Vliet (12/17, 69) - Experimental musician also known as Captain Beefheart Teena Marie (12/26, 54) - R&B singer, most noted for 1984's Lovergirl |
Bobby Charles (1/14, 71) - Cajun songwriter, wrote Walkin To New Orleans Dale Hawkins (2/13, 73) - guitarist who wrote Susie-Q Doug Fieger (2/14, 57) - singer, The Knack Tom "T-Bone" Wolk (2/28, 58) - longtime bassist for Hall and Oates and the SNL band in the 80's and 90's Johnny Maestro (3/24, 70) - singer of 16 Candles Malcolm McLaren (4/8, 64) - former Sex Pistols manager Keith "Guru" Elam (4/19, 47) - original member of rap group Gang Starr Paul Gray (5/24, 38) - bassist of Slipknot Marvin Isley (6/6, 56) - bassist for the Isley Brothers Garry Shider (6/16, 56) - P-Funk's guitarist, aka Starchild or Diaperman Pete Quaife (6/23, 66) - bassist, The Kinks Ben Keith (7/26, 73) - steel guitar, Neil Young Richie Hayward (8/12, 64) - drummer, Little Feat Robert Wilson (8/15, 53) - bassist, Gap Band Mike Edwards (9/3, 62) - cellist, ELO Rich Cronin (9/8, 36) - singer, LFO (1999's Summer Girls, "I like girls who wear Abercrombie & Fitch") Arianna (Ari Up) Forster (10/20, 48) - stepdaughter of Johnny Rotten, lead singer of the Slits
Business / Politics / History
| James von Brunn (1/6, 89)
- white supremacist Holocaust museum shooter Glenn Bell (1/17, 86) - Taco Bell founder Alexander McQueen (2/11, 40) - leading British fashion designer Alexander Haig (2/20, 85) - four-star general and former Secretary of State under Reagan Daryl Gates (4/16, 83) - Former LAPD chief Moishe Rosen (5/19, 78) - founder, Jews for Jesus Mohammed Oudeh (7/2, 73) - mastermind of 1972 Munich Olympics attack David Warren (7/19, 85) - inventor of "black box" flight recorder system in 1956 Jim Winner (9/10, 81) - inventor of "The Club" David Nolan (11/21, 66) - cofounder of the Libertarian Party |
Miep Gies (1/11, 100)
- helped hide Anne Frank Iskandar Ismail (1/22, 77) - king of Malaysia Fred Morrison (2/9, 90) - inventor of the Frisbee Jaime Escalante (3/30, 79) - inspiration for Edward James Olmos' role in Stand and Deliver Umaru Yar'Adua (5/5, 58) - President of Nigeria, but if you send him your bank account number... Chris Haney (5/31, 59) - co-creator of Trivial Pursuit Jim Bohlen (7/5, 84) - cofounder of Greenpeace Dan Rostenkowski (8/11, 82) - 18-term Illinois Rep. Also served 17 months for corruption James Heselden (9/26, 62) - Owned Segway. Died after falling off a Segway into a river. John du Pont (12/9, 72) - heir to the duPont fortune, plus, killed that wrestler guy in '96 |
Donald Goerke (1/10, 83)
- marketing guy behind SpaghettiOs and Campbell's Chunky
Soup John Murtha (2/8, 77) - first Vietnam combat vet elected to Congress, outspoken war critic Charlie Wilson (2/10, 76) - Texas Congressman, played by Tom Hanks in the movie Lech Kaczynski (4/10, 60) - President of Poland John Shepher-Barron (5/15, 84) - inventor of the ATM Edith Shain (6/20, 91) - That nurse getting kissed by that sailor in that V-J Day picture Theo Albrecht (7/24, 88) - cofounder of Aldi's Ted Stevens (8/10, 86) - former Alaska Senator, called the Internet a "series of tubes" Sheik Saqr bin-Mohammad al-Qasimi (10/28, 92) - Longtime U.A.E. monarch |
It's All Relative
| Jean
Biden (1/8, 92) - mother of VP Joe Erma Deutschendorf Davis (1/17, 87) - mother of John Denver Michael Blosil (2/26, 18) - adopted son of Marie Osmond Danny Aiello III (5/1, 53) - stuntman son of Danny Aiello Prescott S. Bush, Jr. (6/23, 87) - Brother of Bush 1, uncle of W Nancy Short (8/21, 58) - wife of Martin |
Carl Smith (1/16, 82) -
country singer and first husband of June Carter Cash Kate McGarrigle (1/18, 63) - mother of singer Rufus Wainwright Theodore Olbermann (3/14, 80) - father of Keith Simon Monjack (5/23, 39) - widower of Brittany Murphy Martin Ginsburg (6/27, 78) - Mr. Justice Ruth Bader John Doherty (11/5, 66) - father of Shannon |
Mary Thomas (1/13,
86) - mother of NBA's Isiah Daniel Kerrigan (1/24, 70) - father of skater Nancy Corin Redgrave (4/6, 70) - brother of Vanessa and Lynn Andrew Koppel (5/31, 40) - son of Ted Kaye Cowher (7/23, 54) - wife of former Steelers coach Bill Henrietta King (12/2, 87) - wife of boxing's Don |