The Recently Dead List 2004

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Celebrity	Died	Age	Comments
Ol Dirty Bastard	14 nov 2004	35	Rapper. Real name - Russel Jones.
Caron Keating	13 apr 2004	41	Blue Peter presenter
Pete McCarthy	6 oct 2004	51	Travel writer.
Christopher Reeve	10 oct 2004	52	Star of the Superman films.
Olivia Goldsmith	16 jan 2004	54	Novellist - wrote 'The First Wives Club'.
Johnny Ramone	16 sep 2004	55	Lead guitarist with The Ramones.
Rick James	6 aug 2004	56	Singer.
Harold Shipman	12 jan 2004	57	Mass Murderer.
Les Gray	21 feb 2004	57	Lead singer with the band Mud.
Emlyn Hughes	9 nov 2004	57	Footballer - played for England and Liverpool.
Tony Randall	17 may 2004	62	Actor. Appeared in the TV series 'The Odd Couple'.
John Peel	26 oct 2004	65	DJ and broadcaster.
Fred Dibnah	6 nov 2004	66	TV Presenter who specialised in engineering/history programmes.
Pat Roach	17 jul 2004	67	Actor.
Frances Shand Kydd	3 jun 2004	68	Princess Di's Mother.
Brian Clough	20 sep 2004	69	Manager of Nottingham Forest.
Lynda Lee-Potter	20 oct 2004	69	Daily Mail Journalist.
Sacha Distel	22 jul 2004	70	French Singer.
Ally MacLeod	01 feb 2004	72	Scottish football manager.
Ivor Wood	21 oct 2004	72	Animator. Worked on The Wombles
Ray Charles	10 jun 2004	73	American singer/songwriter.
Jerry Goldsmith	21 jul 2004	75	Film composer.
Bernard Levin	7 aug 2004	75	Journalist.
Yasser Arafat	10 nov 2004	75	Leader of the PLO.
Janet Leigh	3 oct 2004	77	Actress and mother of Jamie Lee Curtis.
Norris McWhirter	20 apr 2004	78	Editor of the Guinness Book of Records.
Marlon Brando	2 jul 2004	80	Actor - appeared in On the Waterfront
Peter Ustinov	28 mar 2004	82	Actor.
Elmer Bernstein	18 aug 2004	82	Film composer.
Rodney Dangerfield	5 oct 2004	82	Unfunny American Comedian.
John Barron	3 jul 2004	83	Actor.
Howard Keel	7 nov 2004	85	Actor - appeared in Dallas
Max Geldray	4 oct 2004	88	Musician who played on The Goon Show.
Lord Hill-Norton	18 may 2004	89	Admiral of the Fleet
Red Adair	8 aug 2004	89	Specialised in fighting oil rig fires.
Julia Child	13 aug 2004	91	American TV Chef.
Ronald Reagan	5 jun 2004	93	American actor
Princess Juliana	20 mar 2004	94	Former Queen of the Netherlands.
Alistair Cooke	30 mar 2004	95	Radio Journalist.
Henri Cartier-Bresson	3 aug 2004	95	French photographer.
Fay Wray	8 aug 2004	96	Actress. Appeared in the original King Kong film.
Estee Lauder	24 apr 2004	97	Founder of the cosmetics company.
Fred Whipple	30 aug 2004	97	American Astronomer.

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