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September 1, 2010: Cammie King Conlon, 76, US child actor who played Bonnie Blue, the daughter of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, in the 1939 epic Gone With the Wind. She also voiced a character in Bambi, in 1942, but never worked in movies again.
Link: NBC

August 30, 2010: Victoria Longley, 49, Australian actress who had a distinguished stage career and mentored young television actors, of breast cancer. Her own TV career included roles in Wildside, Young Lions, Water Rats and All Saints while her stage credits included King Lear, The Vertical Hour, and The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
Link: SMH

August 23, 2010: George David Weiss, 89, US songwriter whose hits included What a Wonderful World, The Lion Sleeps Tonight and Can't Help Falling In Love.
Link: BBC

August 15, 2010: Robert Wilson, 53, bassist with US funk group The Gap Band. Their hits included Oops Up Side Your Head, Big Fun and Party Lights.
Link: BBC

August 14, 2010: Abbey Lincoln, 84, US jazz singer, songwriter and actress whose hits included ou Gotta Pay the Band, recorded with Stan Getz, and Devil's Got Your Tongue. She was also active in the civil-rights movement.
Link: Shanghai Daily

August 9, 2010: George DiCenzo, 71, US actor, commercial and cartoon voiceover artist and producer who appeared in more than 30 films including g Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Back to the Future and About Last Night.
Link: Wikipedia

August 8, 2010: Patricia Neal, 84, US stage and screen actress who won an Academy Award for the 1963 film Hud. She was also in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Breakfast at Tiffany's
Link: CBS

July 31, 2010: Tom Mankiewicz, 68, US screenwriter and director whose writing credits include the first two Superman films and the James Bond movies, Diamonds Are Forever and Live and Let Die.
Link: SMH

July 28, 2010: Ivy Bean, 104, British woman who was regarded as the world's oldest Twitter and Facebook user. Her thousands of fans included TV and music star Peter Andre, politician Lord Prescott and writer and broadcasterr Stephen Fry.
Link: Wikipedia

July 24, 2010: Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, 61, Northern Ireland snooker legend, of throat cancer. He was world champion in 1972 and 1982.
Link: BBC

July 20, 2010: Jon Cleary, 92, Australian writer whose works included the novels You Can't See Round Corners, Degrees of Connection and The Sundowners. His best-known character is the Sydney detective Scobie Malone, the subject of 20 crime novels.
Link:Brisbane Times

July 19, 2010: David Warren, 85, Australian-born inventor of the aircraft "black box" data recorder.
Link: NY Times

July 14, 2010: Sir (Alan) Charles Mackerras, 84, New York-born, London-based Australian conductor who specialised in the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Link: Wikipedia

July 13, 2010: Gilly Coman, 50, British actress who played daughter Aveline in the 1980s comedy Bread, of a suspected heart attack. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Open All Hours, Brookside and Inspector Morse.
Link: Chortle

July 13, 2010: George Steinbrenner, 80, US businessman who owned the New York Yankees and was a dominant figure in the sport of baseball for four decades.
Link: NY Daily News

July 12, 2010: Harvey Pekar, 70, US cult cartoonist best known for his autobiographical series, American Splendor. He was portrayed in the 2003 film of the same name by Paul Giamatti.
Link: BBC

July 10, 2010: Robert "Bobby" Spillane, 45, son of legendary New York gangster Mickey Spillane, actor and author of a play about a cross-dressing mobster. He fell from an apartment building.
Link: NY Daily News

July 10, 2010: Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer and poet whose career began in the late 1960s with The African Brothers.
Link: Wikipedia

July 2, 2010: Dame Beryl Bainbridge, 75, British novelist whose works included An Awfully Big Adventure, The Dressmaker and Injury Time.
Link: BBC

June 28, 2010 Robert Byrd, 92, longest-serving US senator, in office for 51 years. A Democrat, he was briefly a member of the Ku Klux Klan and he joined Southern Democrats in an unsuccessful filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Link BBC