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Robin Gibb
May 20, 2012: Robin Gibb, 62, British-Australian pop star who rose to global fame during the disco era as a member of the Bee Gees, along with his brothers Maurice and Barry. Their hits included Spicks and Specks, Stayin' Alive and Night Fever.
Link: SMH
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
May 18, 2012: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone regarded as one of the great lyric singers of the 20th Century. Also a conductor, he was in demand for operas and on the concert stage where he was regarded as a master of Schubert lieder.
Link: Wikipdedia
Warda Aldjazairia
May 17, 2012: Warda Aldjazairia, 72, French-born Algerian singer known for her patriotic songs, who had a huge fanbase in Egypt, where she lived most of her adult life, and throughout the Arab world. Born Warda Fatouki, her assumed name translates as "the Algerian Rose".
Link: AFP
Donna Summer
May 17, 2012: Donna Summer, 63, American disco queen whose songs included Love to Love You Baby and I Feel Love.
Link: Wikipedia
Donald 'Duck' Dunn
May 13, 2012: Donald 'Duck' Dunn, 70, bass player with Booker T and the MGs, who played himself in the cult comedy film The Blues Brothers.
Links: Guardian
Carroll Shelby
May 10, 2012: Carroll Shelby, 89, US racing car driver and designer of the Shelby Cobra.
Link: NPR
Vidal Sassoon
May 9, 2012: Vidal Sassoon, 84, UK-born celebrity hairdresser who became a global brand after humble beginnings in London in the early 1950s.
Links: Wikipedia
Joyce Redman
May 9, 2012: Joyce Redman, 93, Irish stage and screen actress who appeared with Lawrence Olivier in Othello and with Albert Finney in the bawdy Tom Jones.
Link: Guardian
Maurice Sendak
May 7, 2012: Maurice Sendak, 83, US children's book author and illustrator whose most famous work was Where the Wild Things Are.
Links: NY Times
Jill Shearer
May 6, 2012: Jill Shearer, Australian playwright whose works including the acclaimed Shimada, which played on Broadway. Her plays were produced by many Australian companies, including the Queensland Theatre Company, the Melbourne Theatre Company and La Boite.
George Lindsey
May 6, 2012: George Lindsey, 83, US character actor best known for the TV comedies Hee-Haw and The Andy Griffith Show, in which he played the dimwitted Goober Pyle.
Link: LA Times
Adam Yauch
Digby Wolfe
May 3, 2012: Digby Wolfe, 82, British-born Australian comedy writer and actor who co-created and wrote for Rowan and Martin's Laugh In and hosted the Australian version of This Is Your Life.
Link: Canberra Times
Edith Bliss
May 3, 2012: Edith Bliss, 53, Australian pop star and television host best known for her appearances on Wonder World and her 1970s hits If It's Love You Want and Heart Of Stone.
Link: Telegraph
Junior Seau
May 2, 2012: Tiaina Baul "Junior" Seau, Jr, 43, American football linebaker who played with the San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins and New England Patriots.
Link: Wikipedia
Jack Gerson
April 29, 2012: Jack Gerson, 83, Scottish author and television screenwriter who wrote for the popular police procedural series Z Cars, as well as The Omega Factor, This Man Craig and Sutherland’s Law.
Link: Scotsman
George Murdock
April 30: George Murdock, 81, US character actor who played in television series including Barney Miller, Bonanza, Ironside, Battlestar Galactica, Night Court, The X-Files and Law & Order, and played God in the film Star Trek: The Final Frontier.
Link: LA Times
Patricia Medina
April 28, 2012: Patricia Medina, 92, British-born Hollywood leading lady of the 1950s. Her films included Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Plunder of the Sun, Botany Bay, Phantom of the Rue Morgue and Fortunes of Captain Blood.She married actor Joseph Cotten in 1960.
Link: LA Times
Fumihiko Nakatsu
April 24, 2012: Fumihiko Nakatsu, 70, Japanese novelist.
Link: Indie Bookspot
Charles Higham
April 21, 2012: Charles Higham, 81, British-born, US-based writer and celebrity biographer among whose many works were controversial books claiming Errol Flynn was a Nazi spy and that Cary Grant as a wife-beating closeted homosexual.
Link: LA Times
Levon Helm
April 19, 2012; Levon Helm, 71, US musician and actor who was the drummer with The Band.
Link: Wikipedia
Greg Ham
April 19, 2012: Greg Ham, 58, flautist with Australian pop band Men at Work. He also appeared on the short-lived 1980s TV comedy While You're Down There.
Link: Age.
Dick Clark
April 18, 2012: Dick Clark, 82, US television star, entertainment entrepreneur and pop-culture icon. He hosted Bandstand in the 1950s and hosted the annual New Year's Eve celebrations from New York for decades.
Link: USA Today
Murray Rose
April 15, 2012: Murray Rose, 73, Scotland-born champion Australian swimmer.
Link: Wikipedia
Jack Tramiel
Mike Wallace
April 7, 2012: Mike Wallace, 93, US television journalist who was a 40-year veteranof the CBS current affairs powerhouse 60 Minutes. He interviewed every American president since John F. Kennedy, except George W Bush.
Link: Guardian
Thomas Kinkade
April 6, 2012: Thomas Kinkade, 54, US painter whose works were popular with everyday Americans but not with the critics and art establishment who questioned the way he commercialised his talent.
Link: Wikipedia
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
April 5, 2012: Ferdinand Porsche, 76, designer from the famous German motor vehicle manufacturing family. The grandson Ferdinand Porsche, he played a big role in the development of the iconic Porsche 911 and the Porsche 904.
Links: Wikipedia
Barney McKenna
April 5, 2012: Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician, the last surviving member of The Dubliners. Their hits included Seven Drunken Nights, Black Velvet Band and The Wild Rover.
Link: Telegraph