2004

In 2004 I may have been feeling particularly morbid following the re-election of George Bush so I created a roll call of that year's departed.

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We lost Red Adair, Yasser Arafat, Richard Avedon, Jan Berry, Marlon Brando, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Iris Chang, Ray Charles, Julia Child, Cy Coleman, Alistair Cooke, Gordon Cooper, Archibald Cox, Francis Crick, Rodney Dangerfield, Dave Dellinger, Jacques Derrida, Fred Ebb, Joe Gold, Jerry Goldsmith, Spaulding Gray, Margaret Hassan, Howard Keel, Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), Estee Lauder, Janet Leigh, Bella Lewitzksy, Johnny Mann, Ellis Marsalis, Mercedes McCambridge, Robert Merrill, Russ Meyer, Ann Miller, Helmut Newton, Jack Paar, William Pickering, David Raksin & Elmer Bernstein, Phil Ramone, Tony Randall, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Reeve, Pierre Salinger, Isabel Sanford, Francesco Scavullo, Peter Ustinov, Barry White, Paul Winfield, Fay Wray, Michel Columbier, James Edward “Doc” Counsilman, Sam Dash, Brian Gibson, John Guerin, Arthur Hailey, Rick James, Alan King, Tug McGraw, Vaughn Meader, Terry Melcher, Ingrid Thulin, Pat Tillman, Theo Van Gogh, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, Hukwe Ubi Zawose, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the Iraq War, and many others.

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Doesn't seem like that long ago, does it?