The second half of this year will go down as the year Death went into overdrive.
July 1 Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident
July 3 Andy Griffith, 86, American actor
July 4 Eric Sykes, 89, British comedy writer (The Goon Show) and actor
July 16 Stephen Covey, 79, American writer (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People)
July 17 Morgan Paull, 67, American actor (Blade Runner)
July 20 Sir Alastair Burnet, 84, British broadcaster (guess he got his knighthood)
July 21 Angharad Rees, 68, Welsh actress (Poldark)
July 23 Sally Ride, 61, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space
July 24 Chad Everett, 75, American actor (Murder, She Wrote, Diagnosis: Murder etc)
July 26 Mary Tamm, 62, English actress (Doctor Who)
July 27 Geoffrey Hughes, 68, English actor (Coronation Street, Keeping Up Appearances)
July 30 Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist, columnist and public speaker
July 30 Jonathan Hardy, 71, New Zealand actor (Farscape), voice of Dominar Rygel XVI
July 31 Gore Vidal, 86, American playwright, novelist, political commentator
August 6 Sir Bernard Lovell, 98, British astronomer, builder of Jodrell Bank
August 9 Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)
August 10 Carlo Rambaldi, special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
August 11 Sid Waddell, 72, British darts commentator
August 12 Joe Kubert, 85, Polish-born American comic book artist
August 15 Harry Harrison (Make Room! Make Room!, The Stainless Steel Rat)
August 16 William Windom, 88, actor (Murder She Wrote, Star Trek)
August 18 Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer ("San Francisco")
August 19 Tony Scott, 68, British film director (Top Gun, Unstoppable) and producer (Numb3rs)
August 20 Phyllis Diller, 95, American comedienne and actress
August 23 Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer (The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock)
August 25 Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon
August 31 Max Bygraves, 89, British singer, variety performer, and TV game show host
September 1 Hal David, 91, American lyricist ("Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head")
September 3 Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, American actor (The Green Mile, Armageddon, Daredevil)
September 3 Sun Myung Moon, Moonie cult leader
September 6 Terry Nutkins, 66, British TV presenter and naturalist
September 12 Derek Jameson, 82, British journalist and broadcaster
September 23 Winrich Kolbe, German-born American television director and producer (Star Trek)
September 25 Andy Williams, 84, American singer ("Moon River") and entertainer
September 27 Herbert Lom, British actor (The Pink Panther, Spartacus, Gambit, The Ladykillers)
September 28 Michael O'Hare, 60, American actor (Babylon 5)
September 30 Turhan Bey, 90, Austrian-born American actor (also appeare in Babylon 5)
October 14 John Clive, 79, English actor (A Clockwork Orange, The Italian Job, Yellow Submarine)
October 18 Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress (Emmanuelle), model
November 5 Stalking Cat, 54, American body modifier
November 6 Clive Dunn, 92, British actor (Dad's Army) and singer ("Grandad")
November 9 Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor (Coronation Street)
November 23 Larry Hagman, 81, American actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie)
December 9 Sir Patrick Moore, 89, British astronomer and broadcaster (The Sky at Night)
December 11 Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian musician
December 22 Mariam Amash, 124 (claimed), supercentenarian, claimant to title, oldest living person
December 24 Jack Klugman, 90, American actor (Quincy, M.E., The Odd Couple, 12 Angry Men)
December 26 Gerry Anderson, (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons)
December 26 Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me")
December 27 Harry Carey, Jr., 91, American actor (Gremlins)
December 27 Jesco von Puttkamer, 79, German-born American aerospace engineer and NASA manager
December 27 Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., 78, American general, "Stormin' Norman"
December 30 Mike Hopkins, 53, New Zealand sound editor (LoTR, The Two Towers)
If anyone famous dies on December 31, I'll be sure to note it down here before New Years'.
It has been a bloody fucking year. So many people known and loved, who've gone past the Great Beyond.
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