Something I did last year, I'm doing it again. I really need a "sad" icon but I can't find any good ones.

Anyway... (cut for longness)

January
1/11 - Sir Edmund Hillary, age 88, heart failure
1/15 - Brad Renfro, age 25, accidental heroin overdose
1/17 - Bobby Fischer, age 64, kidney failure
1/22 - Heath Ledger, age 28, accidental prescription drug overdose

February
2/10 - Roy Scheider, age 75, staph infection
2/23 - Paul Frère, age 91, natural causes

March
3/16 - Gary Hart, age 66, heart attack
3/19 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, age 90, heart failure
3/24 - Richard Widmark, age 93, illness

April
4/1 - Marvin Stone, age 26, heart attack
4/5 - Charlton Heston, age 84, pneumonia
4/14 - Ollie Johnston, age 95, natural causes
4/17 - Danny Federici, age 58, melanoma

May
5/8 - Eddy Arnold, age 89, natural causes
5/24 - Dick Martin, age 86, respiratory complications

June
6/2 - Bo Diddley, age 79, heart failure
6/7 - Jim McKay, age 86, natural causes
6/13 - Tim Russert, age 58, coronary thrombosis
6/22 - George Carlin, age 71, heart failure

July
7/12 - Tony Snow, age 53, colon cancer

August
8/3 - Skip Caray, age 68, bronchitis
8/9 - Bernie Mac, age 50, pneumonia
8/10 - Isaac Hayes, age 65, stroke
8/16 - Ronnie Drew, age 73, illness
8/19 - LeRoi Moore, age 46, complications arising from ATV accident in June
8/20 - Gene Upshaw, age 63, pancreatic cancer
8/21 - Jerry Finn, age 39, cerebral hemorrhage
8/25 - Kevin Duckworth, age 44, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
8/28 - Phil Hill, age 81, Parkinson's disease
8/31 - Jerry Reed, age 71, emphysema

September
9/1 - Don LaFontaine, age 68, pneumothorax
9/2 - Bill Meléndez, age 91, natural causes
9/7 - Don Haskins, age 78, heart failure

October
10/15 - Edie Adams, age 81, pneumonia and cancer
Jack Narz, age 85, series of strokes

November
11/4 - Michael Crichton, age 66, throat cancer
11/11 - Herb Score, age 75, illness
11/12 - Mitch Mitchell, age 61, natural causes
11/17 - Pete Newell, age 93, natural causes

December
12/11 - Maddie Blaustein, age 48, illness
12/17 - Sammy Baugh, age 94, natural causes
12/24 - Harold Pinter, age 78, cancer
12/25 - Eartha Kitt, age 81, colon cancer