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IN MEMORIAM

November & December, 2008

The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.  So to him we leave it.
― William Shakespeare (1564-1616) ―

WEBMASTER'S NOTES:

●  Only individuals who appeared on this site while alive are featured on this page.

●  Individuals who died before November may be found on the In Memoriam 2008 page.

  Tan Jiazhen (aka C. C. Tan)
Chinese geneticist
09/15/1909 - 11/01/2008
(Note: Obituaries claim Tan was 100, but Chinese custom considers a baby to be a year old when born.)
  Jean Fournet
French conductor
04/14/1913 - 11/03/2008
 

Sydney Lucas
British-born Australian WWI veteran, served in British armed forces
09/21/1900 - 11/04/2008
 

Baldev Raj Chopra
Indian film and TV producer and director
04/22/1914 - 11/05/2008
 

Preacher Roe
American baseball player
02/26/1916 - 11/09/2008 (Some sources claim born 1915)
 

Kiyoshi Itô
Japanese mathematician
09/07/1915 - 11/10/2008

 

Reg Varney
British actor, TV's "On the Buses"
07/11/1916 - 11/16/2008
 

Irving Brecher
American screenwriter, "Meet Me in St. Louis"
01/17/1914 - 11/17/2008
  Pete Newell
Canadian-born American college basketball coach
08/03/1915 - 11/17/2008
  Betty James
American businesswoman, co-founder of the Slinky company
02/13/1918 - 11/20/2008

 

William Gibson
 American playwright, "The Miracle Worker", "Golda's Balcony"
11/13/1914 - 11/25/2008
 

Edna Parker
American supercentenarian, world's oldest validated person at time of death
04/20/1893 - 11/26/2008

 

George MacPherson Docherty
 Scottish-born American minister, helped get "under God" in Pledge of Allegiance
05/09/1911 - 11/27/2008
  Verne Orr
American government official, Secretary of the Air Force (1981-1985)
11/12/1916 - 11/27/2008

 

Jørn Utzon
 Danish architect, Australia's Sydney Opera House
04/09/1918 - 11/29/2008

 

Béatrix Beck
 Swiss-born Belgian writer
07/30/1914 - 11/30/2008
  Dorothy Sterling
American writer of books for children and young adults
11/23/1913 - 12/01/2008

  Frank Crean
Australian politician, deputy prime minister (1975)
02/28/1916 - 12/02/2008

 

Forrest J. Ackerman

American science fiction promoter and collector
11/24/1916 - 12/04/2008

 

Catherine Hagel
American supercentenarian, world's 3rd-oldest validated person at time of death
 11/28/1894 - 12/06/2008

 

Frank K. Edmondson
American astronomer
08/01/1912 - 12/08/2008

  Avery Dulles
American cardinal
08/24/1918 - 12/12/2008

  Van Johnson
American actor, "Brigadoon", "The Caine Mutiny"
08/25/1916 - 12/12/2008

  Sammy Baugh
 American football player and actor
03/17/1914 - 12/17/2008

  W. Mark Felt
American FBI administrator, Watergate's "Deep Throat"
08/17/1913 - 12/18/2008

  Hannah Frank
Scottish painter and sculptor
08/23/1908 - 12/18/2008

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