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We’re just past the half-way point of 2009 and it has already been known as The Year Celebrity Deaths.  So far there have been a bunch of notables:

Ricardo Montalbon, Paul Harvey, Ron Silver, Natasha Richardson, Bea Arthur, Dom Deluise, David Carradine, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Walter Cronkite, among others.

But here are some notable people that died in the first half of 2009 that you probably missed:

• Pat Hingle, Commissioner Gordon from the Batman television show;
• Bob May, The Robot from Lost In Space;
• Clarence Swensen, A munchkin from the Wizard of Oz movie;
• Altovise Davis, Sammy Davis Jr.’s wife and oft used punchline;
• Dom DiMaggio, Pro baseball player and brother of Joe DiMaggio;
• Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse since 1977
• Dallas McKennon, voice of Gumby.

Oh, and on February 27th, Alan Landers became the third cigarette company manly-man model to die of lung cancer. He was the “Winston Man”; the other two were “Marlboro Men.”