johnnysorrow | R.I.P 2007

January

Teddy Kollek 95, longtime mayor of Jerusalem.

Yvonne De Carlo, 84, played Lily on "The Munsters."

Carlo Ponti, 94, film producer.

Alice Coltrane, 69, jazz pianist, spiritual leader and wife of John Coltrane.

Michael Brecker, 57, prolific jazz saxophonist.

Art Buchwald, 81, newspaper humorist.

Denny Doherty, 66, Mamas and Papas singer.

E. Howard Hunt, 88, agent who organized Watergate break-in.

Father Robert Drinan, 86, anti-war Congressman.

February

Molly Ivins, 62, Texas political columnist.

Gian Carlo Menotti, 95, opera composer.

Sidney Sheldon, 89, author of steamy novels.

Barbara McNair, 72, actress and singer.

Frankie Laine, 93, hit-making crooner.

Willye B. White, 67, Olympic runner.

Anna Nicole Smith, 39, famous for being famous.

Hank Bauer, 84, World Series star.

Ray Evans, 92, lyricist of hit songs from movies.

Joseph E. Gallo, 87, winemaker who turned to cheese.

Dennis Johnson, 52, N.B.A. defensive wizard.

March

Arthur Schlesinger, 89, historian of power. My Mentor's Mentor.

Betty Hutton, 86, film star of ’40s and ’50s.

Ernie Ladd, 68, hall of famer in football and pro wrestling.

Bowie Kuhn, 80, former baseball commissioner.

Calvert DeForest, 85, Larry (Bud) Melman on "Letterman."

April

Eddie Robinson, 88, pioneer Grambling coach.

Barry Nelson, 86, Broadway and film actor.

Sol LeWitt, 78, master of wall painting.

Roscoe Lee Browne, 81, actor of stage and screen.

Kurt Vonnegut, 84, novelist who caught the imagination of his age.

Don Ho, 76, entertainer who defined the Hawaiian image.

Pat Buckley, 80, writer’s wife and socialite.

Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, actress, singer and arts advocate.

Parry O’Brien, 75, pioneer in shot-putting technique.

David Halberstam, 73, Vietnam reporter and author.

Boris N. Yeltsin, 76, first freely elected leader of Russia.

Warren E. Avis, 92, founder of car rental company.

Jack Valenti, 85, confidant of a president and stars.

Mstislav Rostropovich, 80, dissident maestro and cellist.

May

Tom Poston, 85, virtuosic comic actor.

Carl F. von Weizsäcker, 94, German physicist and thinker.

Walter M. Schirra Jr., 84, early astronaut.

Jerry Falwell, 73, leading religious conservative.

Eugen Weber, 82, authority on modern France.

Charles Nelson Reilly, 76, Tony-winning comic actor.

June

William Meredith, 88, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

Clete Boyer, 70, Yankee third baseman.

Jim Clark, 84, segregationist sheriff in Selma.

Bill France Jr., 74, gave Nascar its national reach.

Richard Rorty, 75, American philosopher.

Don Herbert, 89, "Mr. Wizard" to science buffs.

Baron Guy de Rothschild, 98, led French arm of bank dynasty.

Ruth Bell Graham, 87, Billy’s wife.

Kurt Waldheim, 88, former U.N. chief.

Liz Claiborne, 78, designer who founded a fashion empire.

Joel Siegel, 63, longtime ABC movie critic.

July

Beverly Sills, 78, all-American diva.

Hy Zaret, 99, Tin Pan Alley lyricist.

John Szarkowski, 81, curator who established photography as a fine art.

Doug Marlette, 57, cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize.

Lady Bird Johnson, 94, eased a path to power.

Tammy Faye Bakker, 65, emotive evangelist.

Albert Ellis, 93, influential psychotherapist.

Michelangelo Antonioni, 94, Italian movie auteur.

Ingmar Bergman, 89, master filmmaker.

Tom Snyder, 71, pioneer of late-night television.

Bill Walsh, 75, San Francisco 49ers coach.

August

Tommy Makem, 74, popular and influential Irish folk musician.

Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, 80, a converted Jew who led French Catholics.

Richmond Flowers, 88, Alabama attorney general who challenged George Wallace.

Irene Morgan Kirkaldy, 90, civil rights pioneer.

Merv Griffin, 82, television innovator.

Elizabeth Murray, 66, artist of vivid forms.

Brooke Astor, 105, aristocrat of the people.

Phil Rizzuto, 89, Yankees shortstop turned broadcaster.

Max Roach, 83, master of modern jazz.

Carolyn Goodman, 91, civil rights champion.

Michael Deaver, 69, shaped Reagan’s image.

Leona Helmsley, 87, hotel queen.

Butch van Breda Kolff, 84, fiery basketball coach.

Grace Paley, 84, writer and activist.

Arthur Jones, 80, invented the Nautilus exercise machine.

Richard Jewell, 44, hero of Atlanta Olympic bombing.

September

Luciano Pavarotti, 71, tenor of his generation.

Miyoshi Umeki, 78, first Asian performer to win an Oscar.

Madeleine L’Engle, 88, author of "A Wrinkle in Time."

Jane Wyman, 90, star of film and TV.

Joe Zawinul, 75, jazz fusion pioneer.

Rex Humbard, 88, TV evangelist.

Marcel Marceau, 84, renowned mime.

October

Al Oerter, 71, Olympic discus champion.

George Grizzard, 79, actor noted for Albee roles.

Herbert Muschamp, 59, influential architecture critic for The Times.

Joey Bishop, 89, last of the Rat Pack.

Adm. William Crowe, 82, led Joint Chiefs.

Deborah Kerr, 86, actress of Hollywood's golden age.

Vincent DeDomenico, 92, an inventor of Rice-A-Roni.

Ileanna Sonnabend, 92, art world mover and shaker.

Arthur Kornberg, 89, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.

Porter Wagoner, 80, country singer.

Robert Goulet, 73, actor and singer.

November

Paul W. Tibbets Jr., 92, pilot of Enola Gay.

Igor Moiseyev, 101, Russian choreographer.

Hank Thompson, 82, country singer.

Norman Mailer, 84, towering writer with matching ego.

Laraine Day, 87, "B+ movie" star.

Ira Levin, 78, wrote "Rosemary’s Baby."

Ian Smith, 88, defiant symbol of white rule in Africa.

Maurice Béjart, 80, ballet iconoclast.

Bill Hartack, 74, champion jockey.

Robert Cade, 80, inventor of Gatorade.

Sean Taylor, 24, Washington Redskins safety.

Bill Willis, 86, racial pioneer in pro football.

Henry J. Hyde, 83, powerful House Republican who led impeachment of Clinton.

Roger B. Smith, 82, led General Motors in turbulent times.

Evel Knievel, 69, legendary daredevil.

December

Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, critic and co-founder of The New York Review of Books.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, influential modernist composer.

Ike Turner, 76, R&B singer and former husband of Tina Turner.

Dan Fogelberg, 56, soft-rock star in the 70s.

Michael Kidd, choreographer for Broadway and Hollywood.

Oscar Peterson, 82, jazz’s piano virtuoso.

Benazir Bhutto, 54, former prime minister of Pakistan.