Updated Dead Guy . . .

It’s been two years, so I figured I was due an update. . .

Roy Scheider – February 10, 2008
William F. Buckley, Jr. – February 27, 2008
Jeff Healey – March 2, 2008
Charlton Heston – Died April 5, 2008
Albert Hoffman – April 29, 2008
Eddy Arnold – May 8, 2008
Dick Martin – Died May 24, 2008
Sydney Pollack – Died May 26, 2008
Harvey Korman – May 29, 2008
Yves Saint-Laurent – June 1, 2008
Bo Diddley – Died June 2, 2008
Jim McKay – June 7, 2008
Tim Russert – June 13, 2008
George Carlin – June 22, 2008
Evelyn Keyes – July 4, 2008
Estelle Getty – July 22, 2008
Bernie Mac – August 9, 2008
Isaac Hayes – August 10, 2008
Don LaFontaine – September 1, 2008
Jerry Reed – September 1, 2008
Paul Newman – September 26, 2008
Edie Adams – October 15, 2008
Levi Stubbs – Died October 17, 2008
Michael Crichton – November 4, 2008
Bettie Page – December 11, 2008
Mark Felt – December 18, 2008
Eartha Kitt – December 25, 2008
Ricardo Montalban – January 14, 2009
John Updike – January 27, 2009
Paul Harvey – February 28, 2009
Lenore Annenberg – March 12, 2009
Ron Silver – March 15, 2009
Natasha Richardson – March 18, 2009
Dan Seals – March 25, 2009
Marilyn Chambers – April 12, 2009
Bea Arthur – April 25, 2009
Danny Gans – May 1, 2009
Dom DeLuise – May 4, 2009
David Carradine – June 3, 2009
Ed McMahon – June 23, 2009
Farrah Fawcett June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson – June 25, 2009
Billy Mays – June 28, 2009
Karl Malden – July 1, 2009
Mollie Sugden – July 1, 2009
Robert McNamara – July 6, 2009
Walter Cronkite – July 17, 2009
John Hughes – August 6, 2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver – August 11, 2009
Les Paul – August 13, 2009
Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy – August 25, 2009
Patrick Swayze – September 14, 2009
Mary Travers – September 16, 2009
Lou Albano – October 14, 2009
Soupy Sales – October 22, 2009
Ken Ober – November 15, 2009
Alaina Reed Hall – December 17, 2009
Brittany Murphy – December 20, 2009
Arnold Stang – December 20, 2009

the “Dead Guy”

When I was in college, prob ~ 1994, a guy I worked with told me about “the Dead Guy.” It was a list, compiled by him and his group of friends when they were in college – late 80s – that was an honourary title granted to the most recently deceased celebrity. Well, I did some research and actually compiled a list that has been on my computer for years. I have wanted a forum to post the list – and thought this would be a great place for it. So I will post it here. Obviously – I am not going to put up a list that is 15 years old, so I have only included those since January 2000. The list will obviously be updated from time to time.

So, without further ado – I give you “the Dead Guy”.
Jim Varney – February 10, 2000
Charles Schulz – February 12, 2000
Larry Linville – April 10, 2000
Tito Puente – May 31, 2000
Walter Matthau – July 1, 2000
Sir Alec Guinness – August 5, 2000
Loretta Young – August 12, 2000
Richard Mulligan – September 26, 2000
Steve Allen – October 30, 2000
Victor Borge – December 23, 2000
Jason Robards – December 26, 2000
Ray Walston – January 1, 2001
Dale Evans – February 7, 2001
Morton Downey, Jr. – March 12, 2001
William Hanna – March 22, 2001
Willie Stargell – April 9, 2001
Perry Como – May 12, 2001
Anthony Quinn – June 3, 2001
John Lee Hooker – June 21, 2001
Carroll O’Connor – June 21, 2001
Jack Lemmon – June 27, 2001
Chet Atkins – June 30, 2001
Aaliyah – August 25, 2001
Various People – September 11, 2001
George Harrison – November 29, 2001
Dave Thomas – January 8, 2002
Waylon Jennings – February 13, 2002
Chuck Jones – February 22, 2002
Milton Berle – March 27, 2002
Dudley Moore – March 27, 2002
Queen Elizabeth – March 30, 2002
Layne Staley – April 5, 2002
Robert Urich – April 16, 2002
Linda Lovelace – April 22, 2002
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes – April 25, 2002
Ann Landers – June 22, 2002
Rosemary Clooney – June 29, 2002
Ted Williams – July 5, 2002
Johnny Unitas – September 11, 2002
Stephen Ambrose – October 13, 2002
James Coburn – November 18, 2002
Joe Strummer – December 22, 2002
Maurice Gibb – January 12, 2003
Nell Carter – January 23, 2003
Columbia Space Shuttle Crew – February 1, 2003
Johnny Paycheck – February 18, 2003
Fred Rogers – February 27, 2003
Robert Atkins – April 17, 2003
Robert Stack – May 14, 2003
David Brinkley – June 11, 2003
Gregory Peck – June 12, 2003
Hume Cronyn – June 15, 2003
Strom Thurmond – June 26, 2003
Buddy Hackett – June 29, 2003
Katharine Hepburn – June 29, 2003
Barry White – July 4, 2003
Buddy Ebsen – July 6, 2003
Bob Hope – July 27, 2003
Gregory Hines – August 9, 2003
Charles Bronson – August 30, 2003
Warren Zevon – September 7, 2003
John Ritter – - September 11, 2003
Johnny Cash – September 12, 2003
Robert Palmer – September 25, 2003
Elia Kazan – September 28, 2003
Willie Shoemaker – October 12, 2003
Art Carney November 9, 2003
Earl Hindman – December 29, 2003
Bob Keeshan – January 23, 2004
Jack Paar – January 27, 2004
Paul Winfield – March 7, 2004
Tony Randall – May 17, 2004
Ronald Reagan – June 5, 2004
Ray Charles – June 10, 2004
Marlon Brando – July 1, 2004
Rick James – August 6, 2004
Julia Child – August 13, 2004
Rodney Dangerfield – October 5, 2004
Christopher Reeve – October 10, 2004
Yasser Arafat – November 11, 2004
Russell Tyrone Jones (ODB) – November 13, 2004
Reggie White – December 26, 2004
Jerry Orbach – December 28, 2004
Artie Shaw – December 30, 2004
Johnny Carson – January 23, 2005
Max Schmeling – February 2, 2005
Ossie Davis – February 4, 2005
Arthur Miller – February 10, 2005
Sandra Dee – February 20, 2005
Hunter S. Thompson – February 20, 2005
Chris LeDoux – March 9, 2005
John DeLorean – March 19, 2005
Johnnie Cochran – March 29, 2005
Pope John Paul II – April 02, 2005
Prince Rainier III – April 06, 2005
Eddie Albert – May 26, 2005
Anne Bancroft – June 6, 2005
Luther Vandross – July 1, 2005
Peter Jennings – August 7, 2005
Barbara Bel Geddes – August 8, 2005
Bob Denver – September 2, 2005
William H. Rehnquist – September 3, 2005
Don Adams – September 25, 2005
Nipsey Russell – October 3, 2005
Rosa Parks – October 24, 2005
Pat Morita – November 24, 2005
Richard Pryor – December 10, 2005
Birgit Nilsson – December 25, 2005
Lou Rawls – January 6, 2006
Shelley Winters – January 14, 2006
Wilson Pickett – January 19, 2006
Chris Penn – January 24, 2006
Coretta Scott King – January 31, 2006
Al Lewis – February 3, 2006
Betty Friedan – February 4, 2006
Peter Benchley – February 11, 2006
Curt Gowdy – February 20, 2006
Don Knotts – February 24, 2006
Kirby Puckett – March 6, 2006
Maureen Stapleton – March 13, 2006
Peter Tomarken – March 13, 2006
Buck Owens – March 25, 2006
Caspar Weinberger – March 28, 2006
June Pointer – April 11, 2006
John Kenneth Galbraith – April 29, 2006
Lloyd Bentsen – May 23, 2006
Aaron Spelling – June 23, 2006
Syd Barrett – July 7, 2006
Red Buttons – July 13, 2006
Mickey Spillane – July 17, 2006
Mako – July 21, 2006
Mike Douglas – August 11, 2006
Bruno Kirby – August 14, 2006
Maynard Ferguson – August 23, 2006
Steve Irwin – September 4, 2006
Ann Richards – September 13, 2006
Edward Albert – September 22, 2006
Freddy Fender – October 14, 2006
Jane Wyatt – October 20, 2006
Red Auerbach – October 28, 2006
Adrienne Shelly – November 1, 2006
Ed Bradley – November 9, 2006
Gerald Levert – November 10, 2006
Jack Palance – November 10, 2006
Milton Friedman – November 16, 2006
Robert Altman – November 20, 2006
Elizabeth Bolden – December 4, 2006 (Born August 15, 1890)
Peter Boyle – December 12, 2006
Joseph Barbera – December 18, 2006
James Brown – December 25, 2006
Gerald R. Ford – December 26, 2006
Yvonne De Carlo – January 8, 2007
Sidney Sheldon – January 30, 2007
Molly Ivins – January 31, 2007
Frankie Laine – February 6, 2007
Anna Nicole Smith – February 8, 2007
Richard Jeni – March 10, 2007
Calvert DeForest – March 19, 2007
Johnny Hart – April 7, 2007
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – April 11, 2007
Don Ho – April 14, 2007
Boris Yeltsin – April 23, 2007
Jack Valenti – April 26, 2007
Tom Poston – April 30, 2007
Charles Nelson Reilly – May 25, 2007
Don Herbert – June 12, 2007
Liz Claiborne – June 26, 2007
Joel Siegel – June 29, 2007
Lady Bird Johnson – July 11, 2007
Tom Snyder – July 29, 2007
Ingmar Bergman – July 30, 2007
Merv Griffin – August 12, 2007
Max Roach – August 16, 2007
Leona Helmsley – August 20, 2007
Richard Jewell – August 29, 2007
Luciano Pavarotti – September 09, 2007
Jane Wyman – September 10, 2007
Brett Somers – September 15, 2007
Robert Jordan – September 16, 2007
Marcel Marceau – September 22, 2007
Lois Maxwell – September 29, 2007
Deborah Kerr – October 16, 2007
Joey Bishop – October 17, 2007
Porter Wagoner – October 28, 2007
Robert Goulet – October 30, 2007
Norman Mailer – November 10, 2007
Ira Levin – November 13, 2007
Evel Knievel – November 30, 2007
Ike Turner – December 12, 2007
Dan Fogelberg – December 16, 2007
Oscar Peterson – December 23, 2007
Benazir Bhutto – December 27, 2007
Vampira – January 10, 2008
Sir Edmund Hillary – January 11, 2008
Bobby Fischer – January 17, 2008
Suzanne Pleshette – January 19, 2008
Heath Ledger – January 22, 2008