Celebrity Deaths in 2005

• Richard Pryor, comedian and actor, died December 10 at the age of 65.
• Eugene J. McCarthy, senator and presidential candidate, died December 10 at the age of 89.
• Pat Morita, actor best known for The Karate Kid, died November 24 at the age of 73.
• John Fowles, author best known for The French Lieutenant's Woman, died November 5 at the age of 79.
• Rosa Parks, civil rights icon, died October 24 at the age of 92.
• Ronnie Barker, comic best known as half of the Two Ronnies, died October 3 at the age of 76.
• Nipsey Russell, the poet laureate of television, died October 2 at the age of 80.
• Don Adams, actor best known as Maxwell Smart, died September 25 at the age of 82.
• Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter, died September 20 at the age of 96.
• William H. Rehnquist, chief justice of the US supreme court, died September 3 at the age of 80.
• Bob Denver, actor best known as Gilligan, died September 2 at the age of 70.
• Peter Jennings, newsman, died August 7 at the age of 67.
• James Doohan, actor best known as Scotty on Star Trek, died July 20 at the age of 85.
• Evan Hunter, author better known as Ed McBain, died July 6 at the age of 78.
• Luther Vandross, musician, died July 1 at the age of 54.
• Jaime Sin, Roman Catholic cardinal, died June 21 at the age of 76.
• Anne Bancroft, actress, died June 6 at the age of 73.
• Eddie Albert, actor best known for Green Acres, died May 26 at the age of 99.
• Ismail Merchant, film maker, died May 25 at the age of 68.
• Frank Gorshin, actor best known as the Riddler in the original Batman tv series, died May 17 at the age of 72.
• John Mills, actor best known for his Oscar winning role in Ryan's Daughter, died April 23 at the age of 97.
• Andrea Dworkin, feminist and antiporn crusader, died April 9 at the age of 58.
• Prince Ranier III of Monaco died April 6 at the age of 81.
• Saul Bellow, Nobel prize winning author, died April 4 at the age of 89.
• Pope John Paul II, Karol Joseph Wojtyla, died April 2 at the age of 84.
• Johnnie Cochran, lawyer best known for his work on the O.J. defense, died March 29 at the age of 67.
• John Zachary DeLorean, auto executive, died March 19 at the age of 80.
• Simone Simon, actress best known for Cat People, died February 22 at the age of 93.
• Sandra Dee, actress best known as Gidget, died February 20 at the age of 63.
• Hunter S. Thompson, journalist, died February 20 at the age of 67.
• Arthur Miller, playwright, died February 10 at the age of 89.
• Ossie Davis, actor, died February 4 at the age of 87.
• Max Schmeling, boxer, died February 2 at the age of 99.
• John Vernon, actor best known as Dean Wormer in National Lampoon's Animal House, died February 2 at the age of 72.
• Philip Johnson, architect, died January 25 at the age of 98.
• Johnny Carson, talk show host, died January 23 at the age of 79.
• Frank Kelly Freas, illustrator, died January 2 at the age of 84.
• Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress, died January 1 at the age of 80.