Lost
Jack Poole - 2009, Chairman of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, real estate developer and philanthropist passed away after a two year battle.
William Safire - 2009, New York Times columnist, author, presidential speech writer for Nixon and Agnew and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Myles Brand - 2009. NCAA president and president of University of Indiana and Oregon. Best known for firing Bobby Knight
Patrick Swayze - 2009, actor, cancer and singer, was diagnosed with stage IV pancreatic cancer in juanuary of 2008 and passed away on September 14 after lengthy and courageous battle.
Don Hewitt - 2009, executive producer CBS News and creator of 60 minutes.
Chuck Daly - 2009, Former Head Coach of the Detroit Pistons and coached the Pistons to 2 NBA Championship Titles in1989 & 1990. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1994.
Gene Upshaw - 2008, NFL Allstar & NFLPA Executive Director
Dr. Randy Pausch - 2008 (Carnegie-Mellon Professor and author of “The Last Lecture”)
Dith Pran - 2008, New York Times photo journalist and Cambodian Genocide Survivor/Hero, life was portrayed in the award-winning movie, The Killing Fields
Arif Mardin - 2006, music producer, 12 Grammy’s, produced albums for Barbra Streisand, the BeeGees, Chaka Kahn, Luther Vandross and Aretha Franklin
Luciano Pavarotti - 2007, tenor, one of the greatest tenors in opera history
Brock Peters - 2005, actor, major films - "To kill a mockingbird", "Carmen" and "Porgy and Bess"
Jack Smith - April 7, 2004 (58) Former ABC News correspondent. Known as "Our man Jack Smith" on This Week with David Brinkley. Also reported on ABC's Nightline
Bobbye Sloan – 2004, wife of UTAH JAZZ coach Jerry Sloan
Etta Moten Barnett – 2004 actress and singer
Dick Cusack - 2003, actor, father of actress Joan and actor John Cusack
Richard Crenna – 2003, actor, major movies - "Our Miss Brooks" and "Wait until Dark"
Ken Tyrell – 2001, auto racing driver and founder of Tyrell formula one constructor
Ely Callaway – 2001, founder/chairman of Callaway Golf Co.
Fynvola Grant – 2001, mother of Movie star Hugh Grant
Robert Willis – 2001, younger brother of actor Bruce Willis
Emily Couric – 2001, Viriginia Senator, sister of anchorwoman Katie Couric
Gary Adams – 2000, founder of the TaylorMade Golf – he was regarded as “the father of the metal wood”
Juliet Prowse – 1996, actress and dancer, starred in Can-Can
Marcello Mastroianni - 1996 (actor), La Dolce Vita and Dark Eyes
Henry Mancini - 1994 – composer -"Theme from Peter Gunn" and "Theme From The Pink Panther "
Ralph Ellison - 1994 – author, Invisible man
Fred Gwynne - 1993 - actor - best known as Herman Munster and the Judge in My Cousin Vinny
Michael Landon -1991, actor - Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven and Bonanza
Rex Harrison - 1990, actor, major movies - Doctor Doolittle and My Fair Lady
President Jimmy Carter lost his father, 2 sisters and brother Billy Carter(1988)
Donna Reed – 1986, actress - It’s a wonderful life
Fernando Lamas – 1982, actor , married to Ester Williams and father of Lorenzo Lamas
Margaret Mead - 1978, She was an anthropologist whose controversial studies suggested that culture is more powerful than biology.
Joan Crawford – 1977, actress, major movies – "Mommie Dearest" and "What ever happened to Baby Jane"
Jack Benny – 1974, comedian radio and television
David Hyde Pierce’s (Niles on Frazier) - mother
Johannes Brahms -1897 (composer)
Living and Beating the odds
Steve Jobs - 2004, Co-founder of Apple Computer, diagnosed with islet cell neuroendocrine tumor a rarer but more treatable form of pancreatic cancer
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - 2009, Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Diagnosed with early stages of pancreatic cancer and had surgery in February 2009
Libby Znaimer - 2008,
Veteran Toronto journalist. Vice-president of news and information for The New Classical 96.3 FM and The New AM740 -Zoomer Radio. She also produces and hosts The Zoomer Report, on topics of interest to the Baby Boom generation.
a breast and pancreatic cancer survivor. Treated for pancreatic cancer at Princess Margaret Hospital
