Happy New Year

[wetibbe]

What a difference a year makes!

Actually I'm shocked at the numbers of celebreties, famous people and respected/disrespected personalities that passed in 2011.


A-E
•Osama bin Laden, terrorist
•Hugh Leo Carey, former New York Governor
•Warren Christopher, U.S. government official
•Clarence Clemons, musician
•Al Davis, coach, business personality

F-L
•Peter Falk, actor
•Geraldine Ferraro, U.S. Representative
•Betty Ford, U.S. First Lady
•Joe Frazier, boxer
•Lucian Freud, painter
•Muammar Gaddafi, political leader
•Otto von Hapsburg, Austrian archduke
•Václav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, playwright
•Mark O. Hatfield, U.S. Senator
•Tim Hetherington, photographer, filmmaker
•Christopher Hitchens, writer
•Brian Jacques, author
•Steve Jobs, Co-Founder of Apple computers
•Jack Kevorkian, medical pathologist, activist, convict
•Kim Jong-il, reclusive leader of North Korea
•Nguyen Cao Ky, former leader of South Vietnam
•Jack LaLanne, fitness guru, television show host
•Sidney Lumet, director

M-Q
•Wangari Maathai, activist, political figure
•Harry Morgan, actor
•David Nelson, actor, director
•Charles Harting Percy, U.S. Senator
•Roland Petit, French dancer and choreographer
•Pete Postlethwaite, actor

R-Z
•Norman Ramsey, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
•Cliff Robertson, actor
•Andy Rooney, TV personality, journalist
•Jane Russell, actress
•Sherwood Schwartz, TV producer, writer
•John M. Shalikashvili, first foreign-born soldier to become chariman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
•Robert Sargent Shriver, U.S. public official
•Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, civil rights activist, minister
•Duke Snider, professional baseball player
•Elizabeth Taylor, actress
•Grete Waitz, Norwegian runner
•Malcolm Wallop, U.S. Senator
•Lanford Wilson, playwright
•Amy Winehouse, singer, songwriter
•Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Prize-winning medical physicist
•Susannah York, actress

Read more: People Who Died in 2011 — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/biography/...#ixzz1i77htkRZ

Time marches on !!!

Old Spanish saying:

Salud, amor, pesetas y el tiempo para gastarlo.

Health, love, money and the time to spend it.

[Rim05]

Thanks for posting that information. I had already forgotten about some and others I remember often.

[Patriotic Army Mom]

Happy New Year to you all.