Tribute... and farewell...

Just a continuation of my previous post, I want to acknowledge the deaths of a few prominent people... Pretty sad and depressing year... plus my boss left, and then my baby left... sigh...



1. Roy Scheider, 75, American Academy Award-nominated actor (The French Connection, Jaws, All That Jazz), died of staph infection - Feb 10



2. Lydia Shum, 62, Hong Kong actress, liver cancer - Feb 19



3. D. G. S. Dhinakaran, 73, Indian evangelist, returned to God in heaven - Feb 20



4. Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter, heart failure - Feb 24



5. Charles Chan, 93, Chinese patriarch, father of actor Jackie Chan, prostate cancer - Feb 25



6. Gloria Shayne Baker, 84, American songwriter (Rain Rain Go Away, Do You Hear What I Hear?), lung cancer - March 6



7. Zakaria "Happy Dick" Deros, 62, UMNO's money-laundering MP, heart attack - March 11 (Thank God!)



8. Anthony Minghella, 54, British Academy Award-winning director (The English Patient, Cold Mountain), BFI chairman, post-surgery haemorrhage - March 18



9. Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 90, Sri Lankan/British science fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey), heart failure - March 19



10. Chase Tatum, 34, American former WCW wrestler and road manager for Outkast, apparent accidental drug overdose - March 23



11. Charlton Heston, 84, American Academy Award–winning actor (Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments), NRA president, pneumonia - April 5



12. Teoh Chye Hin, 94, Malaysian secretary-general of the Asian Football Confederation (1974–1978) - April 6



13. Rustam Sani, 64, Malaysian politician (PKR), sociologist, political scientist and blogger - April 23



14. M. G. "Anti-Samy Vellu" Pandithan, 68, Malaysian politician, leukemia - April 30



15. Nasimuddin "AP King" Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer - May 1 (Thank God!)



16. Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain - May 5



17. Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash - May 11



18. Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II - May 12



19. Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director (The Way We Were, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and actor, cancer - May 26



20. Yves Saint Laurent, 71, French fashion designer, founder of Yves Saint Laurent brand, brain cancer - June 1



21. Franklin Otis Booth, Jr., 84, American billionaire, Los Angeles Times executive, ALS - June 15



22. Eric "RM76.4 million" Chia, 74, Mahathir's crony, managing director of Perwaja Steel, died of breathing difficulties - June 24 (I guess he couldn't breathe properly ever since pocketing millions of the rakyat's money... thanks to the ex-PM's help...)