July 28, 2010: Ivy Bean, 104, British woman who was regarded as the world's oldest Twitter and Facebook user. Her thousands of fans included TV and music star Peter Andre, politician Lord Prescott and writer and broadcasterr Stephen Fry.
Link: Wikipedia

July 24, 2010: Alex "Hurricane" Higgins, 61, Northern Ireland snooker legend, of throat cancer. He was world champion in 1972 and 1982.
Link: BBC

July 20, 2010: Jon Cleary, 92, Australian writer whose works included the novels You Can't See Round Corners, Degrees of Connection and The Sundowners. His best-known character is the Sydney detective Scobie Malone, the subject of 20 crime novels.
Link:Brisbane Times

July 19, 2010: David Warren, 85, Australian-born inventor of the aircraft "black box" data recorder.
Link: NY Times

July 14, 2010: Sir (Alan) Charles Mackerras, 84, New York-born, London-based Australian conductor who specialised in the operas of Janacek and Mozart, and the comic works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
Link: Wikipedia

July 13, 2010: Gilly Coman, 50, British actress who played daughter Aveline in the 1980s comedy Bread, of a suspected heart attack. She also appeared in Coronation Street, Open All Hours, Brookside and Inspector Morse.
Link: Chortle

July 13, 2010: George Steinbrenner, 80, US businessman who owned the New York Yankees and was a dominant figure in the sport of baseball for four decades.
Link: NY Daily News

July 12, 2010: Harvey Pekar, 70, US cult cartoonist best known for his autobiographical series, American Splendor. He was portrayed in the 2003 film of the same name by Paul Giamatti.
Link: BBC

July 10, 2010: Robert "Bobby" Spillane, 45, son of legendary New York gangster Mickey Spillane, actor and author of a play about a cross-dressing mobster. He fell from an apartment building.
Link: NY Daily News

July 10, 2010: Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer and poet whose career began in the late 1960s with The African Brothers.
Link: Wikipedia

July 2, 2010: Dame Beryl Bainbridge, 75, British novelist whose works included An Awfully Big Adventure, The Dressmaker and Injury Time.
Link: BBC

June 28, 2010 Robert Byrd, 92, longest-serving US senator, in office for 51 years. A Democrat, he was briefly a member of the Ku Klux Klan and he joined Southern Democrats in an unsuccessful filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Link BBC

June 25, 2010 Alan Plater, 75, British dramatist, novelist and screenwriter whose work ranged from TV series Z Cars to The Fortunes of War and The Blonde Bombshell.
Link BBC

June 24, 2010 Pete Quaife, 66, British musician who played bass with 60s band The Kinks. He later moved to Canada and worked as a graphic artist.
Link Variety

June 21, 2010: Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and writer best known as the creator of papier-mache-headed character Frank Sidebottom.
Link: BBC

June 18, 2010: Ronald Neame, 99, London-born British and Hollywood film director whose successes included Blithe Spirit, The Poseidon Adventure and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. He also wrote screenplays, including Brief Encounter and Great Expectations.
Link: BBC

June 13, 2010: Jimmy Dean, 81, US country singer, TV host and promoter of sausages. His biggest hit was 1961's Big Bad John.
Link: Wikipedia

June 12, 2010: Egon Ronay, Hungarian-born restaurateur and pioneering food critic who helped modernise British cuisine.
Link: Independent

June 6, 2010: Adriana Xenides, 54, Australian television hostess best remebered as the letter turner on the game show Wheel of Fortune. She had a troubled life off screen and died from complications after surgery.
Link: news.com.au

June 4, 2010: Brian Duffy, 76, British photographer who chronicled the Swinging Sixties.
Link: Guardian