RUDOLPH "MINNESOTA FATS" WANDERONE - January 18
Fat ball in the corner casket.
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GENE KELLY - February 2
An American In Heaven.
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AUDREY MEADOWS - February 3
Baby, you were the greatest.
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MARTIN BALSAM - February 13
How ironic that most people think this
bald actor invented balsam shampoo.
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TOMMY RETTIG - February 15
He got away once, but the invaders from Mars
came back and caught the little brat again.
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MCLEAN STEVENSON - February 15
Henry Blake crashed in a chopper,
and now he's resting in a hopper.
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MINNIE PEARL - March 4
Maybe now they can take that
ugly sales tag off her stupid hat.
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WHIT BISSELL - March 5
A sci-fi acting staple who never got rusty.
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GEORGE BURNS - March 9
You said goodnight at 100, Georgie -
just like you predicted!
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VINCE EDWARDS - March 11
Calling Ben Casey? Sorry, the doctor is out.
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GREER GARSON - April 6
The star of "Goodbye Mr. Chips" finally cashed hers in.
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JIMMY "THE GREEK" SNYDER - April 21
A lifetime gambling tout and a racist -
instantly doubling his odds of going to hell.
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ERMA BOMBECK - April 22
The ol' septic tanker finally tanked.
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TIMOTHY LEARY - May 31
Instead of shopping for websites, this LSD
guru should have been looking for gravesites.
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MAX FACTOR - June 7
It was just not in his makeup
to factor death into the equation.
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ELLA FITZGERALD - June 15
Scat this, chubby.
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MEL ALLEN - June 16
There's the crack of the bat -
and that Mel is gone!
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PAMELA MASON - June 29
Wife of actor James Mason,
and inventor of the mason jar.
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MELVIN BELLI - July 9
Scratch one lawyer with a helluva Belli-ache.
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HERB EDELMAN - July 21
Co-starred in The Good Guys.
Now he's one of the dead guys.
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VIRGINIA CHRISTINE - July 24
TV's Mrs. Olsen sold coffee grounds.
Currently she's coughin' underground.
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CLAUDETTE COLBERT - July 30
She had only one good side to shoot,
and now she's totally shot.
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GREG MORRIS - August 27
Voodoo style, his character died in the
Mission: Impossible remake (which he hated),
then so did he - practically right after the premiere, yet!
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JOANNE DRU - September 10
Once she wore a yellow ribbon -
now in a pink satin coffin she's cribbin'.
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JULIET PROWSE - September 13
This sexy dancer always made the cut -
mainly because of her incredible butt.
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TUPAC SHAKUR - September 13
Yo, he wasn't even worth one pack, dawg.
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SPIRO AGNEW - September 17
The loud minority cancelled out his
silent majority mob rule every time.
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DOROTHY LAMOUR - September 22
Another mom of a secret Bob Jr.
So long, sweet sarong... girl.
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TED BESSELL - October 6
Played hottie Marlo Thomas' boyfriend on That Girl,
so at least he died happy. Oh, Donald!
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MOREY AMSTERDAM - October 28
Guy walks into a morgue...
well, he doesn't walk in.
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CARL SAGAN - December 20
Now the little smart fart will be dead
for billions and billions of years.
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