Famous People Who Died in 2005

• Bancroft, Anne

  Mrs. Robinson in the movie The Graduate

• Bellow, Saul

  Author of Henderson, The Rain King and Seize the Day

• Carson, Johnny

  Longtime host of TV's The Tonight Show

• Chisholm, Shirley

  The first African-American woman to run for U.S. president

• Cochran, Johnnie

  Defense attorney in the O.J. Simpson murder case

• Davis, Ossie

  Husband of Ruby Dee and veteran of stage and screen

• Dee, Sandra

  Star of the 1959 movie Gidget

• DeLorean, John

  Creator of the DeLorean car

• Denver, Bob

  Gilligan on TV's Gilligan's Island

• Doohan, James

  Scotty on the TV series Star Trek

• Dworkin, Andrea

  Author of Woman Hating

• Eisner, Will

  Creator of the comic The Spirit

• Herrion, Thomas

  Would-be 49er who died after a 2005 preseason game

• Jennings, Peter

  Anchor of ABC's World News Tonight 1983-2005

• Kennedy, Rosemary

  The Kennedy sister who had a lobotomy

• King Fahd

  Ruler of Saudi Arabia, 1982-2005

• Lehman, Ernest

   The guy who wrote Hitchcock's North by Northwest

• Messick, Dale

  The creator of comic-strip heroine Brenda Starr

• Miller, Arthur

  The author of Death of a Salesman

• Moog, Robert

  The guy who invented the Moog synthesizer

• Parks, Rosa

  The civil rights icon who wouldn't give up her bus seat

• Pope John Paul II

  History's first Polish pope

• Prince Rainier III

  Ruler of Monaco and husband of Princess Grace

• Pryor, Richard

  The comedian who recorded Live on the Sunset Strip

• Rehnquist, William

  16th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Rocket, Charles

  One-time Saturday Night Live actor who killed himself

• Schiavo, Terri

  The brain-damaged woman at the center of the Schiavo legal case

• Thompson, Hunter S.

  Author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

• Vandross, Luther

  The R&B singer of Dance With My Father

• Weber, Dick

  Star PBA bowler from the 1950s to the 1990s

• Wiesenthal, Simon

  The Nazi hunter who nabbed Adolf Eichmann

• Williams, Stanley Tookie

  Co-founder of the Crips street gang

• Wilson, August

  Pulitzer-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson

• Yoshizawa, Akira

  The father of modern origami

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